Visual Studio 2015 Remote Debug not compatible platform error

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I'm trying to remote debug a Visual Studio 2015 project and i get following strange error:

Visual Studio Error incompatible platforms

In english, it should sound like 'the operation failed because the debug object and the debugger are on incompatible platforms'

This error occur when pressing [F5] on Visual studio to start debugging.

Before to start debugging, the remote MsVsMon.exe shows as follow: MsVsMon correctly connected

Conditions are following:

  • remote computer:
    • windows 7 pro sp1 x64, english version
    • msVsMon.exe is run from a share of the local debugging computer (so both Remote debugger uses the same code)
  • local debugging computer:
    • Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
    • Windows 10 Italian version
  • when starting debug from Visual Studio, the user T*5\b*e connect to the remote MsVsMon.exe successfully, see log 'T*5\b*e connected'

What is wrong?

  • is it a problem of different windows version?
  • is it a problem of different languages version?

My solutions contains:

  • an exe x86: I tried to change to Any Cpu or X86 but I collected a worst '... DCOM error ...'
  • many dll in C# and vb.net compiled as 'Any Cpu'
  • some dll in C# compiled as 'X86'
  • some dll in C++ compiled as "win32'

Thanks in advance.

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c#visual-studio-2015remote-debuggingtargetplatform
try by deleting CurrentSettings.vssettings To find the location of this file, go to Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Import and Export Settings. Typically it's found at: Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Settings - Abhishek_Itachi
In which way the deletion of CurrentSettings.vssSettings should solve my problem? I think I will loss my customization. Do you know which is the setting should I fix? - Federico Ballan

1 Answers

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Resolved: the problem was that I run msVsMon.exe from my pc share starting the x64 version while my exe is compiled for x86. I changed the share to the parallel folder x86 and the new msVsMon.exe run without problem.

I can find two little issues on Microsoft messaging:

  1. when the debug session starts with the error the message shown

"the operation failed because the debug object and the debugger are on incompatible platforms"

should be changed in

"the operation failed because the debug object platform 'x86' and the debugger platform 'x64' are incompatible"

  1. starting the x86 version msVsMon.exe a messagebox notifies the user that x86 version will run only x86 exe, otherwise the x64 will run all platform versions ... by this example it seems not.