Lost ability to Debug in VS 2005

[Don]

I have been able to test my VS 2005 VB.Net app in debug and somehow I lost that option. I have keyboard setup is VB6 mode. The only change recently was reloading SQL Express 2005.
Thanks

[Phil Weber]

What happens when you run your app in debug mode? Do you get an error message? If so, what does it say?

[Don]

That is just it, I have no option to start the app in debug. Normally I see a Debug option in the tool bar with Start Debugging, Step Into, Step Over. Now I do not see that option and I can not set a break point in the source.

[Don]

I applied SP1 and now have the debug option back. No idea why other than maybe applying the SP installed something that had an issue. Thanks

[Hack]

Did you have the service pack applied prior to this, and now you had to reapply it?

[mikem123]

I've seen this with our developers as well. Its caused by selecting "Visual Basic" as the default keyboard setup when you run VS2005 the first time. For some reason the devlopers of VS2005 didn't think VB developers would compile to Debug and Release modes....<shrug>

There's 2 ways to get it back:
1. Reset your keyboard layout back to "Visual Studio" developer
2. Right click on a toolbar in VS2005 and select "Customize". In the Categories pick "Build". In the "Commands" window scroll down to "Solution Configurations" and drag that to any toolbar. Close the customize screen and you should see the build to: Debug/Release choice again.

-Mike