Visual Studio 2010 and 2013 not working on my system

Question

I apologize as this may seem as bit of a general question.

I have developed a couple of VB programs using Visual Studio 2010 Professional and others on Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. While I have not done any work in about a month with either version of Visual Studio, I thought I would go in and start work on a new project.

After entering some code in Visual Studio 2010 using WinForms, I found I was unable to run the code in the debugger (pressed the start button and F5).

It acted like it would start, then it just stopped and returned back to my code.

I thought I would try it on another program that was completed and working a couple of months ago, but I had the same issue present itself. Attempting to use Visual Studio 2013 had the same effect.

Any ideas from anyone? Has anyone else experienced this same issue recently? Once again, I do apologize for the lack of examples here, but I'm not sure what I can include to show the problem.

Answer 1

IMO, you should try resetting visual studio settings (and a restart may solve the issue)

you can try following

1. do it via visual studio -> tools -> import export settings
2. or you can run this command devenv /resetuserdata
3. or checkout this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241273.aspx