Unable to start debugging - Visual Studio 2012

Question

\"Unable to start debugging \'C:\\Windows\\System32\\WWAHost.exe\'. The Microsoft Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor (MSVSMON.EXE) does not appear to be running on the r

Answer 1

Myself and several other developers have been trying to look for a solution for this problem for about 3/4 hours as Visual Studio crashed then this error would occur (twice in 2 days). I then suddenly (after a lot of debugging and trying other suggestions and headbanging) I somehow realised that the file which was highlighted had changed and when I was trying to debug was not the MVC app project, once I changed it to my project's one it then worked.

Hope this helps and saves people from hours of pain!