R – Visual Studio no longer associated with application crashes

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When I first installed Visual Studio 2008 on my machine, crashes from applications would present me with a dialog to debug the application in Visual Studio. This was perfect.

Recently however my Visual Studio installation has become unassociated with application crashes. Instead I get a dialog which attempts to file the application crash report to Microsoft. This is very frustrating, as in many cases I do not have time to manually attach Visual Studio as a debugger prior to the application crash.

I do not know why this behaviour has changed, but does anyone know how to reassociate Visual Studio with application crashes?

Best Answer

I'm not sure why the association went away, but maybe try these instructions to fix it:

To enable/disable Just-In-Time debugging

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options dialog box, select the Debugging folder.
  3. In the Debugging folder, select the Just-In-Time page.
  4. In the Enable Just-In-Time debugging of these types of code box, select or clear the relevant program types: Managed, Native, or Script. (To disable Just-In-Time debugging, once it has been enabled, you must be running with Administrator privileges. Enabling Just-In-Time debugging sets a registry key, and Administrator privileges are required to change that key.)
  5. Click OK.
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