[codefrog]

And actually changing it from “(WSL)” to “(WSL”  – truncating it to 4 characters – would have been even better (maybe?) so it would match either old or new  format.

 

[codefrog]

Suuuuuper hacky workaround:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Sysprogs\VisualGDB\VisualGDBCore.dll  contains the wide-string which is used to match the vEthernet adapter tag : "(WSL)"

in wide character format at  hex address 0xA388DA

00A388D0 00 31 00 36 00 7D 00 00 0D 20 00 28 00 57 00 53 .1.6.}... .(.W.S
00A388E0 00 4C 00 29 00 00 13 45 00 6D 00 70 00 74 00 79 .L.)...E.m.p.t.y

I changed the trailing ( to a space : “(WSL)” -> “(WSL ”

00A388D0 00 31 00 36 00 7D 00 00 0D 20 00 28 00 57 00 53 .1.6.}... .(.W.S
00A388E0 00 4C 00 20 00 00 13 45 00 6D 00 70 00 74 00 79 .L. ...E.m.p.t.y


…and now it works.

I assume that the code is searching a list of adapters for one whose name starts with (WSL)

But Microsoft helpfully renamed from “(WSL)” to “(WSL (Hyper-V firewall))” and the “(WSL)” string search fails.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[codefrog]

https://visualgdb.com/documentation/troubleshooting/install/#:~:text=The%20Specified%20Account%20Already%20Exists&text=The%20error%20is%20caused%20by,or%20reinstallation%20of%20Visual%20Studio.&text=Install%20VisualGDB%20again%20by%20running%20its%20MSI%20file.

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[codefrog]

Updating Visual GDB and more importantly turning off Clang Intellisense has made me much happier thanks. Is there a global “Turn off Clang Intellisense” or do I have to do it for each project?

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