TFS Custom Check-in Policy Debugging

Question

I have created a custom check-in policy as given in the link below:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb668980.aspx

I followed the steps as explained by the article. Everything works fine. My doubt is - Is it possible for me to debug the code while check-in the code?

Consider I want to know what are the methods are called inside the CheckForCommentsPolicy class as stated in article or I have added some business logic which needs to debugged. Which process do I have to attach? or Do I have to follow any other approach for debugging?

Is it possible to debug? Kindly help me out.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Yes. You need to have two copies of Visual Studio open. One had your solution open and the other for running the code.

You need to select "Debug | Attach to Process..."

Figure: Open the Attach to process dialog

You can then see all the available process on your computer and you should see the other instace of Visual Studio (this is the one you will use to run your checkin policy).

Figure: Attach to the devenv.exe process

This will allow you to debug the instance of your Check-in Policy running in the copy of Visual Studio you just Attached to.

Answer 2

I got the answer: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163320.aspx#S3