Not able to export or import files when debugging through Visual Studio

Divya Balakrishnan 1

Hi,

I have a project built in WPF ( Visual Studio 2019). I have functionalities to save and open files from the file system. However, I noticed that none of the functionalities work where interaction with the file system happens. This happens mainly when I try to run from Visual Studio.
On the other hand, if I just double-click my exe from the output path, I don't face this issue.

Can anyone suggest is it because of any Visual Studio account permission. How to solve it?

Thanks,
Divya

Karen Payne MVP 35,036 Reputation points

2021-06-14T13:04:46.287+00:00

Can you elaborate on the following as it's vague in what you mean?

However, I noticed that none of the functionalities work where interaction with the file system happens.
Divya Balakrishnan 1 Reputation point

2021-06-14T15:00:45.36+00:00

To explain more, I am using Open Dialogs to save files to the file system and vice-versa. When I run my application through Visual Studio, it hangs. After selecting a file from the file system to open, nothing happens further. However, double-clicking the exe from the Debug folder allows me to get the expected result.
Tianyu Sun-MSFT 27,271 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-06-16T09:07:38.66+00:00

Hi @Divya Balakrishnan , welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum. Does this issue appear both under Start Without Debugging and Start Debugging? Have you installed some third-party extensions? If yes, please try to disable them temporarily and run it in Visual Studio again.