In Visual Studio, how do I debug a project without building it

Question

This is for Visual Studio 2008.

I have Tools|Projects and Solutions|Build and Run|On Run, when projects are out of date set to Always build bec

Answer 1

I found it convenient to create a new build configuration in order to do this. Right-click the solution in the Solution Explorer and choose Properties. From there, choose Configuration Properties / Configuration. Now choose Configuration Manager and create a new configuration as shown. You can create the build configuration as a copy of your Debug project:

Then, press OK and turn off all of the project build flags:

Visual Studio will have created a folder underneath the bin folder in the startup project with the name of the new configuration. Copy your pre-built files into there and run the new configuration.