If you are having problems with launching your app in debug in visual studio, check out this article:

Faster debugging in visual studio .net.

In particular, I'd like to point you to step 3, which makes an unbelievable difference.

Keeping a copy here for posterity:

Step 3: Set the debugger type.

Unless you want to debug managed code, make sure you set MSVC to use a “native only” debugger. Go to the projects settings, Debugging. There’s a field called “Debugger Type”.

Set it to “Native Only” to debug native code, or “Managed only” if you have to do managed code. If you absolutely have to debug both, pick mixed. Under no circumstances leave it set to “Auto” – that slows down debugging tremendously. It seems to take about a second every single time you step to re-evaluate if this is managed or unmanaged code – and it doesn’t always get it right.

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