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my start button does not work. when i click it it gives the pop up window please select a valid startup item and when i right click in the window it wont show execute task in the drop down window. thank in advance for you help
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You can update your VS2022 to the latest version and try again.
Hi @Joshua Thomas,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!
Do you mean that you can’t debug the project? What is your project type?
Please right-click on project node in the Solution Explorer > Set as Startup Project.
If it doesn’t work, you can create a new project and debug it again.
Besides, please ensure that you open a project, not a file. You can open an existing project via File > Open > Project/Solution > select the .sln file.
Sincerely,
Anna
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"Set at Startup Project" is NOT present on the menu when I right-click on ANY file in the Solution Explorer; I right-clicked on the ...csproj file, and I can't set it as a startup solution. I am using Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) version 17.9.7 and have tried to set startup projects in several solutions, mostly ASP.Net web solutions and one Azure Functions solution. I have researched many articles and tried many supposed solutions that DON'T FIX the problem. Why is there a problem??? Can't Microsoft fix this problem??? I have used Visual Studio for 22 years and never seen this problem before now.
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It might happen when the targeted system (i.e WSL: Ubuntu) is missing some dependencies required to compile the project.
Usually, Visual Studio is smart enough to detect it and it will pop up a notification to install required dependencies. The same installations can be done manually in a WSL distro (with closing & reopening the project afterwards.
After installation, the active debug target might appear automatically if the project is not overcomplicated.
Regarding the option Set as Startup Project (right-click on project node in the Solution Explorer), it might not be always present in case of CMake project, for instance.