Visual Studio 2013 CLR SP debugging on local MS SQL Server 2014 - debugging

I'm currently pulling my hair out here. I have an SQL Server Database project in Visual Studio 2013, which contains a CLR SP. I have a test script created in order to call the SP and enable me to debug it. I can build, make changes and publish\deploy to my SQL Server 2014 no problem. However, when I set a break point on my test script I can step into the test, but when it then calls the CLR SP it doesn't hit any of the breakpoints I've set in it. Instead I get Dynamic Transact-SQL windows popping up with any SQL executed within my CLR SP, which is not help at all as the logic I want to debug is the c# code.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Stu.

Please see my comment above for the answer to this problem.

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