Using remote debugging

[SimonH]

Hi all,

I was thinking about setting up a staging server reunning windows 2003 Server.
Up until now I've always used my local machine to perform development because
I don't know how to get debugging working on a remote machine. And frankly,
sometimes getting debugging to work on my own machine can be a total pain
in the arse.

But now I'm going to give it a shot.

Could someone tell me:

a. What I need to do
b. Whether I should expect to be up all night pulling my hair out at stupid
"Cannot Start Debugging" messages!

Thanks everyone

Kindest Regards

Simon

[Sowmi]

Hi ,
First of all to debug remotely u need to install .NET remote debugging
server components.
1)To do that when u are running the visual studio .net wizard choose the
the option for installing full remote server components on the server.
2) If u have to debug on the server, u need to have a user account there on
the server with the user added to the debug users group.
3) The last step is to attach to a remote process from .net ide. Go to tools
menu, choose debug processes. Choose the process u want to debug.

Cheers,
Sowmya

"SimonH" wrote:

Hi all,

I was thinking about setting up a staging server reunning windows 2003 Server.
Up until now I've always used my local machine to perform development because
I don't know how to get debugging working on a remote machine. And frankly,
sometimes getting debugging to work on my own machine can be a total pain
in the arse.

But now I'm going to give it a shot.

Could someone tell me:

a. What I need to do
b. Whether I should expect to be up all night pulling my hair out at stupid
"Cannot Start Debugging" messages!

Thanks everyone

Kindest Regards

Simon

[Corey]

You may also want to make sure that the URL of the new site on your
server is a trusted site. ASP.NET interprets plain IP addresses as
untrusted and therefore won't allow debugging right away. If you're
using an IP address to connect to your web project, just add it to
trusted sites in IE. If you're on a domain controlled network, your
user account needs to be added to the debugger users group so Windows
Authentication will trust you to debug remotely.

Depending on the security settings of your web server, you may also
want to look at "\WINNT\system32\inetsrv\urlscan\urlscan.ini" and make
sure to add the verb "DEBUG" to the [AllowVerbs] section.

Hope this helps.