Not able to export or import files when debugging through visual studio

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Hi,

I have a project built in WPF ( Visual Studio 2019). I have functionalities to save and open files from the file system. However, I noticed that none of the functionalities work where interaction with the file system happens. This happens mainly when I try to run from Visual Studio.
On the other hand, if I just double-click my exe from the output path, I don't face this issue.

Can anyone suggest is it because of any Visual Studio account permission. How to solve it?

Thanks,
Divya

What I have tried:

Tried by setting it to Release Build from Visual Studio. The issue exists still.

Posted 13-Jun-21 17:30pm

Divya B Nair

Updated 13-Jun-21 19:09pm

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2021-06-13T18:28:00

Solution 1

It has nothing to do with Visual Studio. I suspect it has something to do with your code possibly using "CurrentDirectory"?

Nobody can tell because you haven't posted any of your relevant code.

Posted 13-Jun-21 18:28pm

Dave Kreskowiak

OriginalGriff · Answer 2 · 2021-06-13T19:06:00

When your run your code in te debugger, it runs under your current user account, there is no "Visual Studio account", so the file permissions are those of your user.

Use the debugger: put a breakpoint on the methods that "interact with the file system" and try looking at the exception object, at it's Inner Exception (if any) and try to see what the error message(s) are - you need those to work out what the heck is happening.

We can't do that for you: we have no idea what your code looks like, or any access to your file system!

Divya B Nair · Answer 3 · 2021-06-13T19:09:00

Solution 3

Thank you for the suggestion. But what I am wondering is the same exe is being launched when ran from debug folder. Ideally both the cases launch the same exe right, so if it was a problem with code, this has to be seen when direct launching of the exe too.

Posted 13-Jun-21 19:09pm

Divya B Nair

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Richard Deeming 14-Jun-21 10:45am

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