The debugger engine failed to receive any debug events from the debugging target

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Hello guys,
when using Fez Spider sometimes the Debugger fails to get attached, and i just can’t find the cause to this; and it is driving me nuts…

anyone experienced this kind of problem?

i also noticed if i put a break and try to debug while the debugger fails to get attached VS stops the debugger and show the following error: the Break work in the hardware because i can see that the hardware isn’t moving past the break.


The debugger engine failed to receive any debug events from the debugging target

thanks.

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usually means that your program is in a tight loop without a thread.sleep()

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Thanks Mike,

hmm it is a Gatgeteer application and all i have a simple Led calls in the ProgramStarted()…
i even tried thread.Sleep(1000); at the very beginning and it didn’t help…

notice that sometime it works just fine.

well i did have a foreach loop that just loops through an Object and prints the properties … that could be it… after adding a Thread.Sleep(10); inside the loop it looks like it worked…

so the question is DO I NEED THAT Thread.Sleep(10); if I’m not doing the debug ? or only use it when debugging…

i guess this should be added to the Tips… anytime one uses a for loop should consider adding the Thread.Sleep(); inside the loop for debugging purposes…

thanks.
Jay.

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A good system design will never use 100% processor load to allow other threads to work nicely.

If you have a very tight loop that takes a while to finish then it is good to have a delay in it

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Well that’s the thing… i don’t really have anything that heavy running:

this is what i have :


uint y = 20;
            foreach (Blinder item in myRoom.Blinders)
            {
                //Thread.Sleep(1);
                Debug.Print("Name: " + item.Name);
                display.SimpleGraphics.DisplayText("Name: " + item.Name + " count=" + myCount, Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.small), GT.Color.White, x, (uint)(y + (1 * 40)));           
                y = y + 10;
            }

myRoom.Blinders have only two objects… so this isn’t that much of a CPU hog …
which makes wonder why it fails…

so basically I’m looking for any thumbs up tips on how to handle similar situations…

and this only happens when debugging the app…
thanks.

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Jay

Sorry it has taken me a while to respond. I have been on holiday…

Have you been able to resolve your problem?

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Hi Mike,
thanks for checking in… i hope you had great holidays. mine are just coming up ;).

as for the issue no not really,
it just happens randomly…so i can’t really pin point the issue…

and to eliminate the issue i switch to the emulator, because i got tired of having to restart the debugger three to four time before it hooks…

what i found out that works most of the time: is
clean the solution>>Rebuild the solution>>start the debugger… doing these steps seems to make it work…
not sure why… but not all the time though.

Jay.