Cannot get Remote Debugging working with VS2010

Question

I have a server and a workstation on the same corporate domain. My user is a local administrator on both machines. I have Installed the VS2010 version of MSVSMON and set it to r

Answer 1

I just had this problem (never had this problem previously, I remote debug all the time) and resolved it.

First thing I did was narrow it down to being a problem on my machine. When I disabled my firewall lo and behold things worked again so I knew it was my machine and my firewall.

The msdn page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126350(v=vs.100).aspx says if 'Microsoft Visual Studio' is listed in the firewall list to click 'Allow another program' and select it again.

When I clicked 'Allow another program' a list of applications popped up and but Microsoft Visual Studio was not in THAT list so I browsed to devenv.exe and I got a message that it was already in the list! Fortunately it told me that it thought it was in the list as Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools.

So I removed the entry for 'Microsoft Visual Studio' since apparently the same rule was already in the list but with a different name and viola everything works again.

I'm guessing an update or perhaps my VS 2013 Express install somehow affected the firewall settings and having the rule in there twice was confusing my computer.