Remote Debugging in Visual Studio (VS2008), Windows Forms Application

Question

I\'m trying to Remote Debugging a Windows Forms Application (C#), but i\'m always getting this error:

Unable to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studi

Answer 1

So I can't reply without an account, and I can only reply to my own comments, but my registered account is separate from the anonymous account I posted from, so this has to be a "new answer". Sorry.

baget - when I made this work earlier today, I created a local account on both the Remote Debug Monitor PC and Visual Studio PC. RDM was not on the domain, VS was. Both local accounts are administrator with credentials identical to my domain account. From a different account (also administrator) I called runas from an elevated prompt with the netonly switch. You may or may not need to provide your domain with the username, but since the passwords should all match I don't think it matters much.

Don't forget to adjust your permissions in the RDM to allow the user account running VS to connect with Debug privileges. It's pretty picky about who it lets you add to the list, so if you don't create the local account first you'll get pretty frustrated. And if you're running RDM under a different user account name, you have to use the full server name when trying to attach to the remote computer; if you run both RDM and VS from the same user account then you can get away with just the computer name.