What is different between visual studio F5, ctrl+F5, or running outside of visual studio?

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herzl shemuelian picture herzl shemuelian · Jun 26, 2012 · Viewed 36.1k times · Source

I have written a program in vc++ that has different behavior in various case as below.

When I run it by F5 it works properly in release mode.

When I run it by ctrl + F5 it crashes when I start to send data to the program.

Outside of visual studio it crashes immediately.

I don't know how to find the bug. Any idea on what is different between these cases?

Answer

Markus picture Markus · Sep 19, 2013

Running ctrl + F5 will run the application without debugger. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/8b59xk0f(v=vs.90).aspx) This is not the same as running in release mode.

You can run your application in debug mode but without debugger. It sounds stupid but is for example helpful if you want to stop the console from closing on exit. (How to stop console from closing on exit?)

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