Visual Studio can't start debugging because the debug target.

[manny cash]

Hello guys, how are you today?

I got this error, and I can not interpret it. I just created a new project, Form1, with one button. The form1 is empty, no code.

C:\AppoSys\MainAppoinment\Bin\debug\MainAppoinment.exe is missing. Please build the project and retry, or set the outputpath and assemblyname properties appropriately to point at he correct location for the target assembly.

 

[jmcilhinney]

The error message indicates that the EXE for your project that you're trying to debug does not exist in the expected location. The first thing to do would be to check that path to see whether the file actually does exist or not. You can do that in File Explorer or in VS. If you right-click on the project node in the Solution Explorer, you can open the project folder in File Explorer. You can then check subfolders to see whether the debug output exists. You can also click the Show All Files button in the Solution Explorer and the bin folder will be displayed and you can expand it to see what it contains.

If the file is not there, the first thing to do is build the project and see whether it succeeds. If it fails, that's presumably why there is no output, so you need to work out why it's failing and address that. The most likely reason is a compilation error. If the build succeeds then you need to work out why the debugger is looking for the EXE in a different location to where it's being saved. We can help you solve the problem but we need to know what problem we're trying to solve first.