Is there a way to automatically attach the VS2019 Debugger to child processes spawned via System.Diagnostic.Process.Start() method?
I've tried Microsoft Child Process Debugging Power Tool to no avail.
My executables are .NET 5 Console applications.
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For the development I do, I often need to attach to a running process by name (usually a windows service running under a different user account). It is tedious to do:
Debug
Attach to Process...
Select Attach To to switch between Native and Managed code
(we use both in the same process so it's not set to automatic)
Scroll down to find it in the list
Hit Attach button
Agree to the confirmation to debug a windows service
Since it's always the same process, ideally I would like 2 buttons (macros?) on a custom toolbar. One that attaches for managed debugging and another that attaches for native debugging. In both cases, the process name is built into the macro.
Can someone point me to the right resources/documentation to set something like that up?
A Visual Studio macro that you can customize for your process name:
Attach the VS Debugger to IIS’s Worker Process in a single keystroke.
Debug Attach Manager 2012 extension for VS 2012 that "provides extended abilities to attach Visual Studio debuger to web application pools, windows services and other processes."
I have a web service which runs in a app pool in IIS. Whenever I try to debug this web service I attach it to the visual studio debugger. However, the problem is there are multiple w3wp.exe (which hosts the web service) and I don't know which one to attach to. As a workaround, I first open the task manager (which has process command line as one of the column) check which of the mutiple w3wp.exe is hosting my app pool, note down its PID and then attach to the process with that PID from visual studio. Is there any better way to do this? Can I view the w3wp.exe command line parameters from visual studio 'attach to process' window itself? I am using visual studio 2010.
For Window 2008/Vista/7 (IIS 7.0/7.5)
IIS 7.0/7.5 shipped with a new utility called AppCmd which serve as a command line server management utility.
This tool located in %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd.exe
To list current worker process Id’s along with it’s corresponding site use
the below command
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>appcmd list wp
Once you know your application worker process Id, you select the correct worker process from “Attach to Process” dialog on Visual Studio
Hope it does help.
I have used the attach to process feature of visual studio a number of times. However now when i try to attach to a process (dll) the Attach button is disabled. However if i select any other process except the managed one the Attach button is enabled! My problem is closely related to the problem described at the link below
VS attaching to process disabled
A picture of the dialog is attached.
This is almost certainly because there is already another debugger attached to the process - probably the currently running instance of Visual Studio but it may be another instance of Visual Studio, or another debugger entirely (such as WinDbg or a remote debugging session).
Check the "Processes" window (usually found under Debug -> Windows -> Processes) to see what processes Visual Studio is debugging.
Found the solution to the problem
How to step into C/C++ DLL from C# application while debugging
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/605a12zt%28v=VS.90%29.aspx
My question is somewhat similar to this
"How to stop debugging (or detach process) without stopping the process?"
but i want to detach from one process.
for instance, I have a windows form app which i also attach to a windows service. I want to detach from only service (detach all will remove debugging from all executions and hence i won't be able to debug other application).
P.S: If possible please mention for visual studio 2008 and 2010.
In the Processes window (Debug -> Windows -> Processes), right-click on the name of the process you want to detach, and on the shortcut menu, click Detach Process.
Just wanted to share that the shortcut key combo (in VS2013) is Ctrl+Alt+Z to bring up the Process window. The window will only pop up if there is at least one process attached.
If you have Visual Studio Express, there is no Processes window and I did not realized how to detach only one process.
If you are doing Mixed Mode debugging then neither the Debug > Detach All option nor detaching as mentioned in Centro's answer in this thread would work.
I see the Debug > Detach All option or Detach Process option in Debug > Windows > Processes dialog, when I am debugging in Native only or Managed only mode.
I have tested this on Visual Studio 2005 at least for now.
Reference: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/cannot-detach-from-process-the-debugdetach-all-opt/225642
Is it possible to configure the VS.NET 2008 "Just-In-Time" Debugger dialog to show an existing instance of Visual Studio that's already attached to another process?
The scenario I have is an NUnit unit test that runs another process. When I'm debugging the unit test I want to automatically launch the debugger for the child process it runs as well. I pass a special parameter to the child process and the child calls Debugger.Launch(), which is all fine, but when the JIT debug dialog comes up it doesn't list the existing VS.NET instance - I can only open a new instance, which is quite inconvenient.
A debugger that's attached to another process, cannot attach to a secondary process. I think it is possible to have a debugger attached to multiple programs (you can debug multiple websites that are part of the same solution for instance).
Also, you cannot attach more than a single debugger to each process.