visual studio - Unable to start debugging because the object invoked has disconnected from its clients

Question

I'm running Visual Studio 2012 (version 11.0.61030.00 update 4). When debugging a local console application I get the following error when I start debugging (F5):

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging.
The object invoked has disconnected from its clients.
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OK   
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This only happens if I leave visual studio alone without debugging for a couple minutes. If I close visual studio and re-open the error goes away (until I leave it untouched for another couple of minutes). Has anyone experienced this? I can't find any threads of other people experiencing it.

Answer 1

This may be a possible answer for the problem.

Some from the answer:

1. Check which files were changed (why and how) after update from a source control engine
2. Review the list of extensions and plugins. Try to disable all or some of them
3. Close Visual Studio and kill all the development processes: devenv, mspdbsrv, vcpkgsrv, msbuild, msvsmon, vshub, vstest etc
4. Remove .suo, .ncb, .VC.db, .VC.VC.opendb files of the solution as well as .vs directory, which sometimes cause problems
5. Remove project setting files, sort of YourProjectName.vcproj.DOMAINNAME.LOGINNAME.user or YourProjectName.csproj.user. The setting file name depends on a project kind you use
6. Run "C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe" /setup or "C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe" /setup for x64 environment