Debugging a Windows 8 app using windbg

Question

I have an application for Windows 8 applications that needs to be debugged on one of our lab machines. The machines in the lab have windbg, but they don't have Visual Studio. When I run EXE with windbg, I get a message that says: "This application can only be launched in the context of the application container."

Is there a way to force Windbg.exe to create the application container context?

Answer 1

WinDbg can pretty much bind to any running process. You can start your application in the usual way from the launch screen and try to connect to it after that. I used this method when debugging Win32 services.