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    <p>When writing plugins for media center your plugin is hosted in <code>ehexthost.exe</code> this exe gets launched from <code>ehshell.exe</code> and you have no way of launching it directly, instead you pass a special param to <code>ehshell.exe</code> which will launch the plugin in a separate process.</p> <p>When we are debugging <a href="http://code.google.com/p/videobrowser/source/checkout" rel="noreferrer">media browser</a> I find the process of attaching to a second process kind of clunky, I know about Debugger.Attach and also of some <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a329t4ed.aspx" rel="noreferrer">special registry</a> entries I can use.</p> <p>Both these methods don't exactly fit my bill. What I want is to press F5 and have my current instance of visual studio attach to the child process automatically. Can this be done? </p> <p>If there is a plugin for VS that allows me to achieve this functionality I would be happy with it. </p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>I ended up going with the following macro: </p> <pre><code>Public Sub CompileRunAndAttachToEhExtHost() DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build(True) DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Debug() Dim trd As System.Threading.Thread = New System.Threading.Thread(AddressOf AttachToEhExtHost) trd.Start() End Sub Public Sub AttachToEhExtHost() Dim i As Integer = 0 Do Until i = 50 i = i + 1 Try For Each proc As EnvDTE.Process In DTE.Debugger.LocalProcesses If (proc.Name.IndexOf("ehexthost.exe") &lt;&gt; -1) Then proc.Attach() Exit Sub End If Next Catch e As Exception ' dont care - stuff may be busy End Try Threading.Thread.Sleep(100) Loop End Sub </code></pre> <p>Also, I outlined the process on how to <a href="http://www.samsaffron.com/archive/2009/01/28/Simpler+debugging+of+Vista+Media+Center+plugins" rel="noreferrer">get this going</a> on my blog. </p>
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    1. COthere is other way with the new Debugger2 interface, http://www.codeplex.com/lazy/SourceControl/changeset/view/20095#307770
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