Question

I am new to visual studio/asp.net so please bear with me. Using vs 2005 and asp.net 3.5. I have vs installed on the production server. If I set the start option for the site to ‘use default web server’ when I go to debug my website vs tries to open the site at http://localhost:4579/project and returns 404. If I set start option to ‘use custom server’ and specify the correct path to application (the way I would hit the site from the outside) vs is unable to run debug and returns error ‘Unable to start debugging on the web server. Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password’. I am running vs as an administrator on the production server. I thought maybe I needed to set user permissions in the visual studio remote debugging monitor but my admin account was already there. I checked IIS and made sure the application configuration/debugging ‘enable asp server-side script debugging’ was checked. Web config is also set debug=’true’. Clearly I am missing something.

EDIT >Running windows server 2003

Answer 1

Do this…Instead of trying to debug by hitting F5

• Go to Tools
• Attach to Process
• Click View Processes from all users
• Ensure you are selected only for Managed Code
• Select ‘W3WP.EXE’. This is the ASP.NET Worker process.
• Click attach.
• You are now attached and debugging, go refresh the page in a browser and it should hit your breakpoints.