Vsjitdebugger.exe offers new instances, ignoring already running ones - what should I do?

Question

I am debugging two instances of the same process (run with different command line arguments). We turn to them as agents.

Now when debugging the first instance, I run the second. I should add that the image execution flags indicate that the agent is launched through the debugger, which is vsjitdebugger.exe.

Now I hope that vsjitdebugger.exe will allow me to connect an already running instance of VS2010 to a new process, however it only offers to open a new instance.

I think this is due to the fact that the current instance of VS2010 is already debugging the process, but I do not understand why this matters. In the end, from VS2010 there is no problem joining several processes.

Does anyone know how to make vsjitdebugger.exe recognize an open instance of VS2010, even if the latter is already bound to a process?

Thank.

Answer 1

Go back to VS and use Tools + Attach to Process. Click "No" at the JIT debugger prompt :)