Debugging a Text Service (and Visual Studio problems)

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I've received a few emails asking about debugging Text Services.  I figured if two people actually went to the trouble of sending an email, that there's enough demand for a post.

But first, a little diversion:  It turns out that Visual Studio 2005 SP1 ships with an updated version of the C Runtime library, and, by default, adds an entry to the application manifest to use that new library.  Unfortunately, this can cause serious problems for text services - in particular, the text service DLL often won't load.  I work around this problem by turning off manifest