The debugger cannot continue running the process. Unable to start debugging

c# debugging visual-studio-2012 xna
Joachim Velzel picture Joachim Velzel · Jul 10, 2013 · Viewed 23.1k times · Source

I used this to use my XNA game in visual studio 2012, everything worked perfectly as it looks but when I click on the debug button on the top bar, "Start Debugging" and "Start Without Debugging" are grayed out and I click on them. I can still click on the "Start" arrow, when I do I get the following error message.

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Joachim Velzel picture Joachim Velzel · Jul 12, 2013

XNA Solutions come with 2 projects, the Game project and the Content project. Make sure you have the Game Project set as the "start up project". To do this right-click the game project and click "Set as start-up project", it should now work fine.

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