Can Visual Studio be made to debug child processes like WinDBG?

Question

This is similar to this question, but I wanted to flesh it out a bit. (I\'m new here, if I should instead do a \"bump\" answer on the previous question instead, please let

Answer 1

Not possible (AFAIK, any many others...) but you have several workarounds:

1. Use this macro, it comes from the Chrome team which need to deal with a lot of child processes debugging.
2. Put your child process on Image Execution Options so that they will automatclly open in a debugger. Then select the current active instance of Visual Studio.

Answer 2

There is now a power tool that lets you attach to child process: Introducing The Child Process Debugging Power Tool