Improve VS Studio 2022 instructions

[Rainyan]

Description

Improve the documentation for setting up VS 2022 debugging, since the current instructions using the CMake Targets View can apparently fail for some unknown reason.

For more context: https://discord.com/channels/1235346473827434517/1235355938458701874/1380964062841667594

Toolchain

• Windows MSVC VS2022

[Rainyan]

Possibly related VS bug: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Cant-create-launchvsjson-for-CMake-ex/10913931?sort=active

We made a fix in the next version of Visual Studio; we will let you know when this is available.
Jun 11, 2025 8:55 PM

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And as a workaround, for posterity:

• The file path should be <repodir>/src/.vs/launch.vs.json
• Contents of the file should be something like (fix the paths):

{
  "version": "0.2.1",
  "defaults": {},
  "configurations": [
    {
      "type": "dll",
      "exe": "D:\\SteamLibrary\\steamapps\\common\\Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer\\hl2_win64.exe",
      "project": "CMakeLists.txt",
      "projectTarget": "client.dll (game\\client\\client.dll)",
      "name": "client.dll (game\\client\\client.dll)",
      "currentDir": "D:\\SteamLibrary\\steamapps\\common\\Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer",
      "args": [
        "-allowdebug",
        "-insecure",
        "-dev",
        "-sw",
        "-game",
        "D:\\code\\neo\\game\\neo"
      ]
    }
  ]
}