Cannot get Remote Debugging working with VS2010

Question

I have a server and a workstation on the same corporate domain. My user is a local administrator on both machines. I have Installed the VS2010 version of MSVSMON and set it to r

Answer 1

Make sure devenv.exe (visual studio) is in the firewall program exceptions list on the with the DOMAIN checkbox checked!

I was in the same situation, stopped the firewall services running on my machine (win7 x64) but it did not work until I made this change.

Answer 2

In my case : Since the remote machine was not part of the local subnet, I had to go to Windows Firewall -> Advanced Settings -> In bound rules. Select the rule for MS Visual Studio and add remote machine's IP address to "Scope" section. This was in addition to the windows firewall settings described above.