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Help needed with Setting Up Visual Studio Debugger

I'm on casey's first video on "Handmade Hero Day 001 - Setting Up the Windows Build".

At 49:18, casey enters the command "devenv" followed by the path to the exe file.

This exe file was generated with debug info, using -Zi.

However when i do this, i get a warning "The document's format is either unsupported or the document contains binary characters, opening with a different application". Then a loading bar shows up but another error shows up, saying "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component."

If there's another way to do this I'd appreciate any help.