I want to debug an ASP.NET MVC app in IIS using a custom URL defined in HOSTS

Question

I am having trouble setting up VS2010 so I can debug in IIS:

• I have added some custom URL's to HOSTS
• I have edited the application properties to use local IIS
• I have created a virtual directory in IIS

Any good resources fro setting this up?

Answer 1

Deploy your application to IIS and, when it is running, try to attach to the process from the Visual Studio Debugger (in Debug / Attach to Process). Make sure your web.config have debug mode turned on and the assemblies are compiled with debug symbols.