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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:58:38+00:00

Not using Cassini, but IIS7 to run an ASP.NET app. The debug behavior is

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Not using Cassini, but IIS7 to run an ASP.NET app.

The debug behavior is flakey. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I was able to step into the application start event in global.asax but sometimes I can’t.

Sometimes VS2008 opens the published global.asax so I have two instances of global.asax opened in VS, the source and the published.

I reset the AppDomain and IIS and I can’t put my finger on why this is happening. Any clues?

To add, while it won’t go into application start, I have an OnChangeEventHandler event – it does step into the event handler.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Visual Studio doesn’t connect to w3wp.exe soon enough to handle breakpoints in Application_Start for IIS7-hosted applications. To debug, use the following line to call debugger explicitly, 

    System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();

    and choose to launch a new instance of Visual Studio.

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