I have a project that is working fine on my system. I can debug the project without problems. My development system is Win 7 (x64). When I deploy and/or publish this project to my test environment (Windows Server 2003 (x32)), I can no longer debug it. I keep getting an error that states “The following module was built either with optimizations enabled or without debug information.” It is referring to one of the DLLs in my project that is from another project in the solution.
This application was originally created in VS 2005. I upgraded it to VS 2010 with no problems. I also felt that the original project needed to be re-factored, so I pulled all of the business and data layer logic and put it into a separate class library project within the solution. The web project also needed to be split up because the same code was running on two different server with different pages on both. However, there was shared presentation logic between the two web projects, so I created another class library project that was specifically for the presentation layer. After all of that, I now have 4 projects (2 class library projects and 2 web projects).
All of the web pages are working correctly, but it appears that I am having some issues with a web service (classic web service, not WCF) in one of the web projects. I am getting erroneous results and I am trying to step through it to find the problem. Please help! I have a pending deadline on this project.
You’re building on a 64-bit system and deploying on a 32-bit system. This may be your problem.
Also, the account used while setting up remote debugger needs to have admin or power user privileges.
Third, can you debug any other assembly remotely? Try building a dummy console app and see if you can debug it remotely.
Also, once you attach a debugger, you can go to Debug > Windows > Modules > select your module and try to load the symbols manually. This may give you additional info as to why its not getting loaded.