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

It can also happen if an another application is attached to the debug process. Once, I attached ants memory profiler to the visual studio(VS2012) debug process. Later, I stopped the debugging and try to run it again, but VS2012 didn't allow me to debug. Only after stopping the ants profiler session, I was able to debug again.