Remote Debugging in ASP.NET

For the 70-515 .NET 4 web certification there is a chapter on debugging your web projects. This is a pretty useful thing to know about. In fact the last chapter I read was about setting up profiles in web sites/web applications which I also found quite useful.

I have never really done any remote debugging of web applications so it is a useful tool to understand. Usually I prefer to run a test program on my machine which connects to the data but I appreciate there will be occasions where that isn’t possible.

I also had some problems today when.the visual studio wasn’t ran as administrator. Although I set up Visual studio to run as an administrator, it didn’t seem to do this if you open it by clicking on a project file.

I have found a couple of good articles about setting up remote debugging

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/IISRemoteDebugging.aspx

How to:setting up remote debugging

I have also found a couple of interesting youtube videos on the subject

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEp6VqUg2WE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVC3vvuauqA&feature=related