Can't run my code, VS asks me to attach to process

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Can't run my code, VS asks me to attach to process

Idan-Hi Levayev 0

I started learning code in my free time, the code was working and running perfectly, saved the code as a .cs file (the only option I saw)

Re-opend it later and tried to run it again, keeps asking me to attach to process,

When I open a new project and paste all of the code it runs again.

My friend just downloaded VS and right from the beginning it asks he to attach to process, he could not run a code once, nothing worked for him.

Tianyu Sun-MSFT 33,646 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-01T14:01:29.8+00:00

Hello @Idan-Hi Levayev ,

I have not heard from you for a couple of days. May I ask if this issue still blocks you or your friend? There are two ways, normally, to run your code in Visual Studio, either directly creating a Console project and write the code into the .cs file and build and run the project, or create a Console project and copy the code to the .cs file and run your project.

Please feel free to let me know if there’s anything that I can help here.

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 33,646 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-01T14:01:29.8+00:00

Hello @Idan-Hi Levayev ,

I have not heard from you for a couple of days. May I ask if this issue still blocks you or your friend? There are two ways, normally, to run your code in Visual Studio, either directly creating a Console project and write the code into the .cs file and build and run the project, or create a Console project and copy the code to the .cs file and run your project.

Please feel free to let me know if there’s anything that I can help here.

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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Hello @Idan-Hi Levayev ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

You need to create a C# project(for example C# Console application project) and write C# codes then run(build and run) it in VS, after that it will run. You can’t run a single .cs file in VS, so you saw "attach to process" instead of "Run".

See this document: Start from a project for more details.

Feel free to contact us.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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