Visual Studio 2010 Automatic Attach To Process

Question

I am using visual studio 2010, my application has a multiu layer architect,

MainUI, WCFService, BLL and DAL

My MainUI communicated to WCF and WCF further commun

Answer 1

Sample howto start a process and attach it to Visual Studio 2010 with EnvDTE(Version is relevant).

//c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\EnvDTE.dll
using Process = EnvDTE.Process;
System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + @"\YourProcess.exe";
//Start the process
p.Start();
//Wait for process init
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);

bool attached = false;
//did not find a better solution for this(since it's not super reliable)
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
    if (attached)
    {
        break;
    }
    try
    {
        EnvDTE.DTE dte2 = (EnvDTE.DTE)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.10.0");
        EnvDTE.Debugger debugger = dte2.Debugger;
        foreach (Process program in debugger.LocalProcesses)
        {
            if (program.Name.Contains("YouProcess.exe"))
            {
                program.Attach();
                attached = true;
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        //handle execption...
    }
}