I found the problem, I had the VTune plugin installed in my VS install, when I removed it, I was able to debug ok. My guess is that the VTune plugin somehow messed up the pdb generation.

indigox3 wrote: Not much relevant to my question. Seems pretty clear to me :rolleyes: "Each call to GdiplusStartup should be paired....." GdiplusShutdown Function The GdiplusShutdown function cleans up resources used by Microsoft Windows GDI+. Each call to GdiplusStartup should be paired with a call to GdiplusShutdown.