How to make a program know if it is running inside VS2005 IDE?

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Hi all.

I am just wondering if there is a way to make a VB.Net program know
whether it is running from inside a Visual Studio 2005 IDE or a
compiled executable?

Thanks.
-CG

Jul 19 '07 #1

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Hi all.

I am just wondering if there is a way to make a VB.Net program know
whether it is running from inside a Visual Studio 2005 IDE or a
compiled executable?

You can use this command:

System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().Pro cessName.ToLower =
"devenv"

Jul 19 '07 #2

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:28:09 GMT, Spam Catcher
<sp**********@rogers.comwrote:

>You can use this command:

System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().Pr ocessName.ToLower =
"devenv"

System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().Pro cessName does the
trick.

Thanks very much.
-CG

Jul 19 '07 #3

ShaneO

no****@nospam.com wrote:

Hi all.

I am just wondering if there is a way to make a VB.Net program know
whether it is running from inside a Visual Studio 2005 IDE or a
compiled executable?

Thanks.
-CG

The one I use is -

System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached

The Debugger will only be Attached if running under the IDE.

ShaneO

There are 10 kinds of people - Those who understand Binary and those who
don't.

Jul 19 '07 #4

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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:53:15 +1000, ShaneO <sp****@optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

>The one I use is -

System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached

The Debugger will only be Attached if running under the IDE.

ShaneO

That works too.
Thanks.

Jul 20 '07 #5

Newbie Coder

But surely that will only work in DEBUG mode & not RELEASE as it removes the
debugging info

|I am sure you can use a pre-processor to check this too. Something along the
lines of:

#If DEBUG Then
MessageBox.Show("Debug")
#Else
MessageBox.Show("Release")
#End If

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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:53:15 +1000, ShaneO <sp****@optusnet.com.au>
wrote:

The one I use is -

System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached

The Debugger will only be Attached if running under the IDE.

ShaneO

That works too.
Thanks.

Jul 23 '07 #6

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