Configure Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger

Question

I have installed the Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger on a Windows Server 2003 (x86) server, and am attempting to connect to it results in the following error:

Answer 1

Here are the steps I took to get remote debugging to work against an ASP.NET app. Not sure if you've done this already, hopefully something might help.

• On my machine (call it DEVMACHINE from now on) I shared out the folder that contained the remote debugger (msvsmon.exe). On my machine, it was located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86. I called the share msvsmon

• On the server, I opened Windows explorer and navigated to \\DEVMACHINE\msvsmon, and ran msvsmon.exe (This opened the Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor)

• On DEVMACHINE, I started Visual Studio 2010 and opened the solution that represents the application I'm attempting to debug.

• In Visual Studio, clicked Tools > Attach To Process...

• Entered the server name in the Qualifier field, then double clicked on the w3p.exe process that was in the list.

• I then placed a break point in the location I wanted to start debugging

Couple things to note: The code deployed to the server was a Debug Build, the pdb files were there, along with the binaries. I had full admin rights on the server. No tools were installed on the server, I simply ran the exe that was located on DEVMACHINE. I did not have any firewalls between the DEVMACHINE and the server. And, both DEVMACHINE and the server are on the same domain.

Hope that helps.