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Remote Debugging with VS2008

Remote Debugging

This is a very common development requirement and many of you might be knowing this thing already. However, I am just putting this information as it might help someone. In a distributed development scenario it becomes imminent to have remote debugging possible lest you have your development environment both on your regular development system and the remote server where the webapp is deployed. However, this problem could be resolved if we try to use remote debugging. It is easy to do with Visual Studio.NET. I am using VS2008 but the same should apply to 2005 as well with minor changes.

All you need to do is to copy C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\ folder from your local development system having VS2008 to the remote system which you want to debug. On remote system you can launch msvsmon.exe and also you can create a desktop shortcut for the same to make it easy to launch everytime. The user launching this app must be an admin to provide full previledges else you should use run as to launch this application with administrator rights.

More information could be found from
http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/How-to-get-Remote-Debugging-work-properly.aspx