Debugging Visual D using Visual D

[Johnson Jones via Digitalmars-d-debugger]

So, just to let you know, I seemed to be able to setup Visual 
Studio so that I can debug Visual D(with visual D).

To do this:

Load the experimental hive:

https://blog.agchapman.com/updating-registry-settings-for-visual-studio-2017/

Load the privateregistry.bin file from 
%localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_[instanceid]{RootSuffix}\privateregistry.bin


Modify all visual D install dirs with a location one wants to use 
for the debugged version, there are quite a few. I simply made a 
sub-dir called debug and copied the original data to that 
location(and, of course, made a backup).

Create a way to copy the debug version of visual D to that 
directory(a build event, batch file, etc).

Then run visual studio with /RootSuffix Exp

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb166560.aspx

It should load a new exp visual studio using the new visual D. 
Now one can copy the dll without issue since they are different 
versions being used.

The only thing left to do is have it automatically run visual 
studio on "start". There seems to be no csproj for visualD though 
so it can't be modified, I guess a post build event could be used.

Also, it seems that one can't disable building for a project. 
Visual D has several projects and I'm so used to building using 
F6 that I tend to rebuild the whole thing. Is it possible to get 
some way to disable building for a project in the solution?