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

I went to the services, found the service called "Application Experience" it was active.

I updated the service on right-click, and then right-click again, press "Reboot".

This worked for me. I am using Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 7 SP1 32bits.

But in the past I was using my application on Visual Studio 2015 at Windows 10 64bits.