ufmo.blogg.se - The microsoft visual studio remote debugging monitor

A caveat here: If your host is x86 machine, then you have no choice but x86 package for your remote computer – there is no way you can debug a 64-bit process in a 32-bit debugger. There are two possible ways to install it – you can either download and run the setup package from Microsoft or copy all the necessary files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger (path on my 64-bit Win7). This listener is called Remote Debugging Monitor ( msvsmon.exe). Since the debugging process is wholly controlled from the host, there must be a listener on the remote computer that executes commands sent from Visual Studio.

remote computer – is a machine on which the debuggee is run.

host – is a machine on which Visual Studio is installed and on which you control the debugging process.

Let’s first start with a definition of parts involved in the debugging process: I hope that this post will fill some of these gaps and will help you configure and run the remote debugging tools. After having read the MSDN documentation on this subject, I still missed some information. NET desktop application with Visual Studio 2010. And if you're running RDM under a different user account name, you have to use the full server name when trying to attach to the remote computer if you run both RDM and VS from the same user account then you can get away with just the computer name.I've recently needed to remotely debug a.

It's pretty picky about who it lets you add to the list, so if you don't create the local account first you'll get pretty frustrated. You may or may not need to provide your domain with the username, but since the passwords should all match I don't think it matters much.ĭon't forget to adjust your permissions in the RDM to allow the user account running VS to connect with Debug privileges. From a different account (also administrator) I called runas from an elevated prompt with the netonly switch. Both local accounts are administrator with credentials identical to my domain account.

Sorry.īaget - when I made this work earlier today, I created a local account on both the Remote Debug Monitor PC and Visual Studio PC. So I can't reply without an account, and I can only reply to my own comments, but my registered account is separate from the anonymous account I posted from, so this has to be a "new answer".