Can't break in global.asax / Application_Start

Question

I got a break point on the first line of Application_Start(), but Visual Studio wont break on it.

Visual Studio have attached itself to the IIS working proc

Answer 1

If using IISEXPRESS is not an option, as @David Perlman mentions, I would go for a Logger. Log4Net or NLog are both good. It's good to have a logger in the longrun, for instance in production environments.

namespace DataService
{
    using NLog;
    public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        private Logger log; 
        protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            LogManager.LoadConfiguration("nlog.config");
            log = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger(); 
            log.Error($"Read this line in the log specified in nlog.config");
        }