So I wrote a simple C++ Console Application in Visual Studios 2013, it was a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors for my friends to demonstrate C++ to them. Each of my friends downloaded the game over Skype, and tried to open the application. However, it didn't work, they are running Windows 8/8.1 and they got an error, Windows Smartscreen prevented a unrecognized app from starting. For the publisher it says Unknown Publisher. It was a simple error to remove just click more info and run anyway. This problem is however very annoying and if so I would like it to stop when my applications run on others computers. Could it just be the way I transferred the file to them? I have look everywhere on the internet but the closest thing I could find was how this happens to Windows Application in VS, how you need a Digital Certificate for Windows to trust you as a Publisher. If you would need to review my source code it is on Pastebin here:Rock, Paper, Scissors Source Code
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In debugging C++ application in Visual Studio IDE in Windows, is it possible to have the application start in the terminal that comes integrated as a window pane at the bottom of the IDE? At present, hitting F5 to start debugging force starts an external console application.
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You will notice that a new external console opens on the side. The bottom right of the IDE has a "Developer Powershell" pane. Can the application be debugged within this pane?
Flavors of this question have been asked before. However, they seem to have received conflicting answers with no clarity. See for instance, this thread on SO.
Few websites claim that this is possible and seemingly provide tutorial to accomplish this. For e.g., see here. However, this seems to be .net applications and not C++ applications.
Even using VSCode (a different environment), it seems impossible to start a C++ debugging session in Windows inside the IDE itself. See question/answer about this here. It appears that an external new console will necessarily be launched.
I just downloaded VSC in order to start learning C++. Previously I had just used Notepad++ for web design and Python IDE for Python, but I decided to move onto Visual Studio Code for a more sophisticated code editor.
However, when trying to run a basic program, I don't have the option to run in the first place. This picture is what's supposed to come up when you right-click on the text area (from multiple YouTube tutorials):
However, this is what comes up on my screen.
Additionally, there is no "run" button on the top-right of the screen like the tutorials show.
My folders regarding VSC in File Explorer are quite simple. I have a folder for my .cpp code, and MinGW as a compiler. My build is Windows 10.
Obviously, this depends from person to person, but is there any key way this situation can be resolved? Thank you in advance.
I see the following error whenever I try to debug "Cross Platform" under "C++" category: "Unable to start debugging. Unexpected GDB output from command "-target-select remote :5039". Remote connection closed"
I've installed all of the contents when I downloaded Visual Studio 2015 community and I ran it on Windows 10 Pro which supports Hyper-V.
I've been searching a solution for this and I've found an assumption:
"What is your debug target, the VS Android Emulator? When we saw this before it turned out to be a bad emulator image. Do you have this problem with all targets (e.g. if you try a physical device) or just one?"
In my case, I just tried this via Emulator(VS Emulator 5" Lolipop (5.0) XXHDP Phone (0x86 -...)
So I've sent an Email to VS 2015.
And the answer was like this:
"Sorry for the delay in responding we were looking at an emulator image of another user that ran into this problem so I was waiting until we had the results of that investigation to report back. We actually were not able to find anything wrong the emulator itself, our current hypothesis is that it is a network or adb problem interfering with GDB’s ability to connect to GDB server on the remote machine. Do you see this error every time you try to debug, or if you reboot the emulator will it work sometimes right after the reboot? Next time you see the error, can you open the emulator’s console mode by going go the Hyper-V manager and double clicking the emulator. Then find the location your app installed to and run “gdbserver --version" from the app path and let me know what it says? This will validate if the correct version of gdbserver is on the device."
So we are trying to solve this problem but I'm also asking here just in case.
Is there anyone who has magical solution for this problem?
I'll put a comment on this if I figure out how to solve this.
Thanks in advance.
** Following answer is from the manager of Visual Studio 2015:
You are only the second person who has run into this issue, and the first person that ran into it provided their everything works correctly when we run their .vhd on our machines so it appears to be some strange problem where gdbserver (which comes from the Android NDK provided by Google) crashes only when running on certain machines. Unfortunately the .vhd you provided does not appear to be the correct one it won’t boot for me. You can see the .vhd file being used by the emulator if you look under the settings of the emulator in your Hyper-V manager. .However given we got the other person’s .vhd you can hold off providing any additional information at this point. I’m waiting to hear back from the emulator team on if they have any ideas since this appears to be an issue only on specific machines since.
If you don’t mind my asking, if you don’t have a background in computers what inspired you to try C++ on Android? That scenario will be significantly more complicated than doing Java on Android.
It's been almost two months since I got this answer but I haven't got any additional response from them yet. So, I ended up quitting developing an application by using VS2015.
If you run into this problem, there are only two ways to go. Change your computer or stop developing application via VS2015.
If the project name contains spaces, the whole remote debugging fails. Visual Studio also creates weird paths. When checking out the "Blink1 for Raspberry Pi" template, I named the Project "Blink1 for Pi", which resulted in a path like this:
~/projects/Blink1?/for/pi/PI/for/pi....
And all the debugging failed. When I recreated this keeping the project name "Blink1", everything worked fine. It's a pity, that spaces aren't handled here...
Disclaimer: I'm quite new to the MSFT tech world and only started Windows Phone development a month or so ago.
I am unable to figure out how to log information to the Visual Studio Output window from within a C# and C++ (Direct3D) Windows Phone 8 App. Is this possible?
I am building in debug mode, targeting Windows Phone 8, running in the XDE emulator and my development machine is a Windows 8 box with VS2012 Ultimate installed. My App runs fine, my Direct3D scene renders normally, but I can't log anything! This makes tracing code execution difficult and forces me to use breakpoints (which can be overkill in many situations).
I've been searching far and wide and have tried many methods (OutputDebugString being one of them). I can't see anything on MSDN about this - why is this not documented anywhere?
Yep, it's possible to write debug strings from WP8 C++ to the output window in VS2012. I actually have an example of that here.
1) Invoke OutputDebugString from C++.
void Direct3DInterop::MyButtonWasClicked()
{
OutputDebugString(L"Button was clicked!");
}
2) Before running the app make sure to change to the native debugger from the managed debugger in the project's properties.
I believe the methods in System.Diagnostics.Debug (specifically the overloads of WriteLine()) work...although I haven't tried them with C++ apps.
I am new in developing application for WinCE 5.0. I want to start from "Hello world" program or console application. But I couldn't find anything like that or any other sample applications to start from.
I am using Visual Studio 2005. I created new project >> visual C++ >> Win32 smart device project >> console application >> finish.
The project compiles fine. I was trying simple
printf("Hello world");
But When I ran in smart phone 2003 emulator, it showed no output.
I couldn't find a good tutorial to start from. Please suggest me some good tutorials or sample applications to start from.
Thanks in advance.
What does the log say? That the application has terminated successfully with return code 0x0?
If you did not put anything to stop the application it might be that it runs good and terminates without you noticing it. Try to add a scanf or Sleep(5000) after the printf statement so things will be visible. You can also compile it in debug mode and put a breakpoint after the printf statement and see the results.
In addition, I am not too familiar with Windows Mobile and its incarnations (smart phone 2003 being one of them), but I am not sure how it handles a printf. You can try create an MFC application and use the MessageBox to display your text.
OK. I just tried the two options and there is no CMD windows in Windows Mobile (Smartphone or PocketPC) so the application runs successfully, but prints nothing.
Use the MFC option or deploy your application to a Windows CE 5.0 device emulator image. I have not tried that download myself, but it says that it should save you the hassle of handling Platform Builder. Note that you might be missing some components in the image down the road, but I suppose that for practicing purposes it should suite you just fine.
WinMo/Pocket pC devices have no console, so your output went nowhere. You can always add a console on like PocketConsole.
there is CMD windows in POCKET PC 2003 emulator you can try it using visual basic code