MVolo's Blog : Debugging

Troubleshooting performance counter problems with perfmon and a debugger

IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:17:00 GMT

Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code...(read more)

Using Visual Studio 2008 with IIS 7.0

mvolo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:44:00 GMT

In the past, I've blogged a number of times about using Visual Studio to develop and debug IIS 7.0 applications.

I am happy to say that Visual Studio 2008 has added a number of improvements to work better with IIS 7.0, making it a lot easier to use it to develop, deploy, and debug those applications both locally and on remote IIS 7.0 servers.

To help you get started with using Visual Studio 2008 to work with IIS 7.0 applications, I put together a new iis.net article precisely on the subject. Learn more about it at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2008/03/12/Using-Visual-Studio-2008-with-IIS-7.0.aspx.

Thanks,

Mike

At last, Visual Studio patch for F5 debugging on Windows Vista has been released

mvolo — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:12:00 GMT

A Visual Studio patch that fixes the Visual Studio F5 debugging of IIS7 applications on Windows Vista Home Premium and above has been released!

This patch solves the "An authentication error occurred while communicating with the web server. Please see Help for assistance.", and "Debugging failed because integrated Windows authentication is not enabled. Please see Help for assistance" errors, that until now had to be worked around using the instructions in my previous post on this matter.

Read more and get the patch information from my older post on this subject, Fix problems with Visual Studio F5 debugging of ASP.NET applications on IIS7 Vista.

Troubleshoot 503 Service Unavailable errors with start-up debugging

mvolo — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:52:00 GMT

In a previous post titled Where did my IIS7 server go? Troubleshooting "service unavailable" errors, I covered the basic steps for dealing with 503 Service Unavailable errors on IIS7.

This post dives deeper into debugging the IIS worker process to get to the bottom of particularly difficult crashes occurring during IIS worker process initialization, where the process goes away before you can debug it with normal means.

Read more at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/05/19/Troubleshooting-IIS7-503-_2200_Service-unavailable_2200_-errors-with-startup-debugging.aspx.

Fix problems with Visual Studio F5 debugging of ASP.NET applications on IIS7 Vista

mvolo — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:39:00 GMT

A number of people have been reporting problems when trying to debug their ASP.NET applications on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005 F5 debugging support. There are a handful of posts about trying to get this to work in various ways ... most of which are missing key information needed to *really* get it to work.

Hopefully this will be the *definitive* guide to enabling F5 debugging on Vista / IIS7.

Read the details at http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2006/12/28/Fix-problems-with-Visual-Studio-F5-debugging-of-ASP.NET-applications-on-IIS7-Vista.aspx.