remote-debugging

What is the fastest way to inject some logging on a live web application?

I have a live web application that is failing in one specific scenario, and locally it works fine. I don't have remote debugging setup, and I want to check the value of some of the variables in the code. What would be the fastest way for me to log/email/debug the code to view those values? Just to be clear, there is no error/exception...

Cannot remote debug IIS -- w3wp.exe is grayed out

I am trying to debug an IIS Web Service using remote debugging. Because of our domain configuration (which we CANNOT change) I get an Access is denied when remote debugging via the Default option. The only solution I've found is to switch to Remote (Native only with no authentication) option in VS 2008. The problem is that when I co...

How to do this Visual Studio, VSS, VM setup?

Our team recently got new dev machines, but our team lead has a special case that needs to be addressed and I'm not really sure the best way to set it up. The particulars... New machines are running Server 2008 Visual Studio 2008 and sometimes 2005 We have a virtual machine of XP setup on our machines, for cases like this Sigh Yes we ...

How do I attach a trace listener to a running process?

I'm not sure if this is possible in the manner I am envisioning or not so I'm hoping someone can help me wrap my head around this. I'm wanting to inject a TraceListener into a running process - kind of. I don't actually care how I attach to the process, but the end goal is to listen to the trace output of the running process and dump i...

Remote debugging on HPUX

I am trying to do remote debugging on HPUX using WDB but am not really getting anywhere. Any ideas or links to decent tutorials? ...

Remote Debugging .net

Guys, I've read all related remote debug entries here and couldn't find an answer to my problem. I've trying to setup remote debugging to test a console app. Dev Machine - Vista, VS 2008 Remote Machine - Win 2008 I've followed the steps in this article to configure it and I'm stuck with the following error when I try to list processes...

How do I deal with a ClassNotLoadedException while debugging?

So I'm (remotely) debugging some a java/jboss application in Eclipse, stepping through line by line. At one point, an array of GridSquare objects (GridSquare is a fairly simple, standalone class, contains a few properties and methods) is created by a method call, i.e: GridSquare[] squares = this.theGrid.getSquares(14, 18, 220, 222); ....

How to debug an asp.net applicaiton on live server

I have an old asp.net web application based on .net framework 1.1, it has been deployed to live server for many years, right now I am having some issues with the live site only, the development version on my desktop works fine. So I am thinking about attach a remote debugger to the live site and monitor what happened exactly on live serv...

Debugging java obfuscated code

We are going to obfuscate our project but don't want to lose the ability of remote debugging and hotswapping. Is it possible? Which tools can handle this? I'd be happy with simple obfuscation - just renaming classes/methods/variables. [Edited] We're using Intellij IDEA but wasn't able to find any plugin for this task. ...

Visual Studio 2008 remote debugging disabled? (no "Remote" transport)

Hi, has anyone seen this happen before? I need to do remote debugging but don't seem to have the option to use it. When I load Visual Studio 2008 and go into the Tools > Attach to Process menu, the only Transport that is listed (first dropdown) is "Default". That means that I can't switch to the "Remote (Native Only)" transport I woul...

How to get DirectX debug messages under remote debugging with VS2008 without installing the DXSDK on the remote machine?

I'm trying to debug some problems that only happen on some Windows XP machines. My development system uses Vista, and I'd like to avoid having to setup a complete development environment in XP to debug this problem. I've successfully setup remote debugging to the XP systems using VS2008, but have not been able to get DirectX to output ...

Remote Debugging is not breaking on errors

I am fairly new to remote debugging in Visual Studio, and by new I mean I have never done it before. Here are the steps I have taken to try to remotely debug an application on one of the servers in our network: open a website in VS2008 "\\server\website" Start the msvsmon service on "server" with "no authentication" and "allow any use...

What are the complete steps to remote debug a website built in ASP.NET using Visual Studio 2008?

I have remote debugger setup on both my client and remote machine. I'm just looking for how to use it to debug an ASP.NET website. All Google searches have failed to answer my specific question. Basically, I have open the website in Visual Studio... so where do I go from there? ...

Debugging winMobile application on remote device (PDA, ARM) from Visual Studio

Hi! I have some PDAs (windows mobile) to test my application. One of them is HTC Touch Dual, and it have some bugs in debugging. There is another ARMv6 device I can use, but it's far far away. So I can't use USB cable, but can use TCP/IP (internet, not intranet). Do you know, how can I connect to remote windows mobile device to debug a...

Trace to Opera Dragonfly

I am using Opera on a Windows PC and developing for a device. I can telnet into the device and manually run the browser which gives me the browser output. Is it possible to trace messages into both Dragonfly and the Opera console? I can see a window.alert() message show up in the console, but I would also like to trace messages for simp...

Looking for a GUI debugger that runs on windows and can remote debug on Linux

The current setup is that I'm developing a program for Linux (and debugging the binary with GDB via SSH), but using Eclipse and a remote file mount to do the editing from a Windows box. I'd really love to be able to debug in eclipse but I haven't yet found anything that would work. Anyone know of anything I should look at? BTW: I'm wi...

More remote debugging sessions for multiple instances of JBoss

Hello, I'm running more instances of JBoss on one machine. This instances is created with own address binding parameter -b and runs on different configurations by -c parameter. The machine is Linux one and there are more virtual interfaces created (by ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 up). My idea is that more peop...

Is it possible to remote debug a VirtualBox with visual studio?

I'm running different versions of our application on Sun's open source VirtualBox, is it possible to remote debug the app from the host OS with Visual Studio? The problem is that in Visual Studio when I want to attach to a remote machine I have to enter either a computer name or IP and the IP I get from within the virtual box isn't pinga...

Remotely debug Linux Kernel from Windows?

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to remotely debug the Linux kernel running under VMWare (and if so, if there's a way to do it in Windows since linux kind of scares me...). Both are x86. I know VMWare has support for this (I saw a post about remote debugging via gdb), but if there was a way to do it from Windows (i.e. Ecl...

remote debug in Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor on Windows Server 2008 x64 takes years to refresh process list

When I remotely "Attach to Process" in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to WS2008 (x64) computer running remote debugging monitor (both RTM and SP1), I see a huge number (30+) of entries saying: <username> connected Both TCP and authenticated mode are affected. I think there is an entry per unique process name. Each connection attempt takes se...