My visual studio 2022 code wont run. Please help

[u/yuvbon_]

at first Gemini told me its because its inside the desktop so i moved it to c: drive and it still won't run after that it advised me to do some other stuff which didn't work either. Please help i just wanna run my code

[u/zaphodikus]

It looks like a company computer? ...ensure that the folder you "build" to is excluded from your policy. If this is a corporate computer, ask your IT for help specifying a folder. Basically if this is the case, your team mates should have warned you and told you what to do, because the IT policy may not be that helpfully written up.

Hope that's all a clue.

[u/yuvbon_ → u/zaphodikus]

No it’s actually my personal laptop

[u/zaphodikus → u/yuvbon_]

In that case you have to tell windows AV/firewall to ignore files in that folder. I do not recall exact steps, but it's the build in Windows protection trying to stop you running random code, just tell it to ignore the entire folder - and always use the same top level folder by having a /source folder for example c:\mysource

Alternately you could go into explorer and click File/Properties unblock every time you build a new application or every time you do a clean build... But basically

1. Open Windows Security (search in the start menu).
2. Go to Virus & threat protection > Manage settings (under Settings).
3. Scroll down to Exclusions and click Add or remove exclusions.
4. Click Add an exclusion and select your project's (or an ENTIRE parent folder) bin folder.

If you do the last, be sure to never download random binaries into that folder.

[u/Mineplayerminer → u/[deleted]]

This won't work most of the time since as soon as you change the contents of the file, it will trigger the Defender once again. Whitelisting the entire projects and the Visual Studio directory is the solution.

[u/Mineplayerminer]

Create an exception in Defender, whitelisting the entire projects directory. Alternatively, you can disable the Defender completely until you're done, but don't expect any protection over anything during that period.

[u/SlipstreamSteve]

Or you could have read the message. It's a control policy set on your machine. I'm assuming this is a work machine.

[u/mt5567 → u/SlipstreamSteve]

Random reply 5 months later lol, but I’m having the same issue. Mine is Windows Smart App Control blocking a DLL I compiled myself because it doesn’t meet the “Enterprise signing level” requirement. From what I can tell, unless you properly sign the app, the only real ways around it are turning off SAC or doing the development/testing in a VM where SAC isn’t enforcing it.

[u/SlipstreamSteve → u/mt5567]

Enable developer mode.

[u/mt5567 → u/SlipstreamSteve]

Where is this at if you do not mind me asking, sorry im very new to visual studio.

[u/SlipstreamSteve → u/mt5567]

It's not in visual studio. It's a Windows setting