Visual Studio 2010 debug not starting, F5 or click on “Play” not working, not doing anything. Waiting 2-3 minutes solves the issue

Question

I have a relatively simple C# (Framework 4) console application. When I click the \"Play\" icon or hit F5 (i.e. start the program in debug mode), the icon becomes gra

Answer 1

See what happens if you try "Release" instead of "Debug". If release works, then its because of a process (that you can find in Task Manager) which name is {Name of your Project}.vshost.exe
It's description is "vshost32" so you can sort by description alphabetically to find it easies.