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In a standard MFC app, in the File Open dialog, when I right click a file, I get a message saying:
I only get this message when I run the application from Visual Studio. If I just execute the app from Explorer, it works fine. How can I remove this error?Quote:
"Protection Error: Debugger detected - please close it down and restart!"
Further reading and research has told me that certain processes detect debuggers and terminate in order to stop code being reverse engineered. I find it odd that Visual Studio creates an application that cannot be run fully in its own IDE. Is there anything I can do here?
It is likely to be a dynamic context menu shell extension that is objecting to the presence of the debugger. What software inserts entries into your shell context menus? A quick search shows that DVDXCopy or DivX are potential culprits.
It appears I only have WinRAR in the context menus. I guess this isn't really a serious problem, but I just can't find any official response to this problem, ie, from Microsoft. Any more ideas are appreciated.