Remote Debugging Server Side of a Web Application with Visual Studio 2008

Question

So, I\'ve read that it is not a good idea to install VS2008 on my test server machine as it changes the run time environment too much. I\'ve never attempted remote debugging wi

Answer 1

Visual Studio comes with a remote debugger that you can run as an exe on your server. It works best if you can run it as the same domain user as your copy of visual studio. You can then do an attach to process from the debugger on your machine to the IIS process on the server and debug as if it was running on your machine. You get more options for .Net debugging, but there's support for older platforms too.