How to determine if in developer IDE or stand-alone?

[Tom]

How can one determine if a .NET program is running in the developer IDE or
running stand-alone? I am sure I saw something somewhere but I don't
remember where or what.

Thanks!

Tom

[Arne Janning]

Tom wrote:

How can one determine if a .NET program is running in the developer IDE or
running stand-alone? I am sure I saw something somewhere but I don't
remember where or what.

Try the shared property:

System.Diagnost ics.Debugger.Is Attached

Cheers

Arne Janning

[bottas]

Tom wrote:

How can one determine if a .NET program is running in the developer IDE or
running stand-alone? I am sure I saw something somewhere but I don't
remember where or what.

In VB6 I've been using, and it should work similarly from VB.NET:

Public Function IsRunFromIDE() As Boolean
Debug.Assert MakeTrue(IsRunF romIDE) Or True
End Function

Private Function MakeTrue(ByRef bItem As Boolean)
bItem = True
End Function

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Tom" <to*@nospam.com > scripsit:

How can one determine if a .NET program is running in the developer IDE or
running stand-alone? I am sure I saw something somewhere but I don't
remember where or what.

See:

<URL:http://www.google.de/groups?threadm= %23O1GIqAOEHA.4 036%40TK2MSFTNG P12.phx.gbl>

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Gavin Jacobs]

None of the methods suggested will determine if you are started from the
IDE. You can come to the same conclusion by testing this code (perhaps in
page_load).

Debug.WriteLine ("DebugWriteLin e")
#If DEBUG Then
Debug.WriteLine ("If Debug> DebugWriteLine" )
#Else
Debug.WriteLine ("Else Release> DebugWriteLine" )
#End If
If System.Diagnost ics.Debugger.Is Attached() Then
Debug.WriteLine ("Debugger Is Attached")
Else
Debug.WriteLine ("Debugger Is Not Attached")
End If

If the project is in Debug mode, and started with F5, you get everything you
expect.

If the project is in Debug mode, and started with Ctrl-F5, you can still see
the debug output, but you have to use an external debug catcher (e.g.
dbgview from www.sysinternals.com). You get the output you expect.

If you set the project to Release mode, you get nothing, but only because I
used Debug.Writeline ; your program would execute the #Else code.

So we still have the question how to determine if the IDE started the
program? Still looking.
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* "Tom" <to*@nospam.com > scripsit:

How can one determine if a .NET program is running in the developer IDE or running stand-alone? I am sure I saw something somewhere but I don't
remember where or what.
See:

<URL:http://www.google.de/groups?threadm=...TK2MSFTNGP12.p
hx.gbl>
--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>