Debugging: Attach to remote process, no more Module list

[Martin Simard]

Hi all,

In VS 2003, when I attach to a remote process for debugging, I can see the
list of modules loaded by the process before attaching to it. This list is
not there anymore in VS 2005. Instead, I just have a warning for security
reasons and 2 buttons (Attach | Don't attach).

Let me explain a bit... I have several web applications running on different
servers. All servers are XP 2003 Servers with IIS 6. My applications runs in
different application pools, which results that I have several w3wp.exe on
each server.

In VS 2003, when I double click on a w3wp.exe process, I can see in the
lower part of the dialog the modules loaded by the process (section: "The
following programs will be debugged:"). That was easy for me to select the
right process to debug (double click, escape, double click, escape.. done!)

In VS 2005, when I double click on a w3wp.exe process, I just have the
security warning and the choice to attach or not. The only way I found to
check if I'm actually attached to the right process, is to select one
process and then open the Modules window (from the debug menu) from which I
can see if I clicked the right process. If not, I have to detach, and try
again with another process. This is very annoying since there can be a lot
of w3wp.exe running on each servers.

Any workaround will be appreciated,

Regards,

Martin

[Jennifer Cormier]

Martin, if you ever found a nice workaround please let us know by posting
your solution in this newsgroup. my team is running into the same problem.
thx. ciao! Jenny.

"Martin Simard" <ma**********@no.spam.ca> wrote in message
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Hi all,

In VS 2003, when I attach to a remote process for debugging, I can see the
list of modules loaded by the process before attaching to it. This list is
not there anymore in VS 2005. Instead, I just have a warning for security
reasons and 2 buttons (Attach | Don't attach).

Let me explain a bit... I have several web applications running on
different servers. All servers are XP 2003 Servers with IIS 6. My
applications runs in different application pools, which results that I
have several w3wp.exe on each server.

In VS 2003, when I double click on a w3wp.exe process, I can see in the
lower part of the dialog the modules loaded by the process (section: "The
following programs will be debugged:"). That was easy for me to select the
right process to debug (double click, escape, double click, escape..
done!)

In VS 2005, when I double click on a w3wp.exe process, I just have the
security warning and the choice to attach or not. The only way I found to
check if I'm actually attached to the right process, is to select one
process and then open the Modules window (from the debug menu) from which
I can see if I clicked the right process. If not, I have to detach, and
try again with another process. This is very annoying since there can be a
lot of w3wp.exe running on each servers.

Any workaround will be appreciated,

Regards,

Martin