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I used this to use my XNA game in visual studio 2012, everything worked perfectly as it looks but when I click on the debug button on the top bar, "Start Debugging" and "Start Without Debugging" are grayed out and I click on them. I can still click on the "Start" arrow, when I do I get the following error message.

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  • What did you do to support your xna project in visual studio 2012? You need to do quite a bit of hacking to make it work. Here is a good reference: stackoverflow.com/questions/10881005/…
    – krolth
    Commented Jul 10, 2013 at 6:06
  • yes, that is what I used, I forgot to put the link in
    – Joachim Velzel
    Commented Jul 10, 2013 at 22:53
  • now if I find the executable of the project in "Projects/name/name/name/bin/x86/Debug/" it runs just fine. but If I replace bin with obj in the directory, It says "name has stopped working" and it doesn't execute. So it might be something with the obj folder
    – Joachim Velzel
    Commented Jul 12, 2013 at 0:06
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    As answered by @JoachimVelzel, you need to select a project as default project censore.blogspot.com/2015/10/visual-studio-quirks.html
    – biplav
    Commented Oct 9, 2015 at 12:47

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XNA Solutions come with 2 projects, the Game project and the Content project. Make sure you have the Game Project set as the "start up project". To do this right-click the game project and click "Set as start-up project", it should now work fine.

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In general, we have to set the project which is executable (web, winform, console, mobile app...) is start up project so that we can debug / run the solution

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  • XNA projects are not like web
    – user585968
    Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 2:46
  • I mean this error can happen to any solutions which set the start up project to the project that is unable to start
    – Anh Bui
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 8:22
  • OK. Consider revising your answer to include this new information. :)
    – user585968
    Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 21:50
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You will find the project loading unavailable (in Solution Explorer), just need to right-click then Reload Project.

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If you run in this issue for Xbox One application (Durango) here's how I solved,

  1. uninstall XDK & ADK
  2. Reinstalling XDK then ADK.

Posting here so it can help someone.

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