Showing posts with label debug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debug. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

VisualStudio debug attach to process does not show w3p IIS web publishing in the list of processes

I was debugging an ASP.Net application using VisualStudio and attaching the debugger to the w3p process.
Sometimes, the list of processes to attach to, does not show the w3p process.

How-I-fixed-it:
Here are some steps, that made the w3p process appear again in the list:
- Rebuild the solution
- Restart VisualStudio
- Logout from Windows and log in again
- Open the web application to be debugged in a browser window (this finally solved the problem on my computer)

This list of steps is a "best-of" the solution, i collected from the following sources:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983439/why-cant-i-attach-to-the-w3wp-exe-process-when-i-turn-off-just-my-code-in-vs201
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4313206/cannot-attach-debugger-to-w3wp