VSCode debugs an old file instead of current one

Question

Setting up the debugger was already painful but I was able to do it in the end. I wanted to organize my files properly so I made some subfolders and then when I tried to debug any program in my subfolder, it would debug an older file from the main folder that I had debugged sometime before.

Heres my launch.json file

Answer 1

You have to change the program that you're debugging, currently you have that set to a.exe to debug another file change this line:

“program”: “${workspaceFolder}/a.exe”,

to this,

“program”: “${workspaceFolder}/path/to/debug/test.exe”,

Alternatively, you can add another configuration (ie copy-and-paste your current configuration changing the line from above and the name)