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I’m trying to debug an ASP.NET webapp that’s configured to “Use Local IIS Web Server” on WinXP. When I start the debugger, the compile succeeds, and then the following error is displayed in a dialog:
Unable to start debugging on the web
server. The COM+ registry database
detected a system error
The webapp never launches in my browser. How can I get rid of this message and debug this webapp?
I tried the usual stuff, and my exact scenario ended up being described a post in the MSDN forums. Its answer worked for me, despite my environment (VS2008, .NET 3.5) being more modern:
Here are the steps I followed (basically a summary of the link above — “ASPNET” being significant because that’s the user running the IIS instance on my development box):
My development workstation’s security settings/situation is regularly managed by our security folks here, so something must have upset my ASP.NET/IIS/etc environment.