When I try to debug an ASP.NET application, VS.NET pops up saying "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server." and "Click Help for more information." When I look at the IIS logs, the DEBUG verb is returning a 401 error. Here's what I've tried: 1. Checke...more >>

Hi All I have an issue when try to debug through VS.Net to VB 6.0 envir. Win Form and Console application can debug through. But when I debug web service or web form that try to consume old VB 6.0 component, it can not go through debugging Any ideas Regards Charles...more >>

I have a C# Web Project set up, that has been working fine for weeks, debugging and all Suddenly, the Autos and Command windows are giving me <error: an exception of type: {System.ArgumentException} occurred for many properties that used to show up fine. For example, I have a DataSet and when...more >>

Hello all, I'm trying to get the JIT debugger to kick in when I get a runtime exception. When I was running v1.0 .NET, all I had to do is put the line <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> in my machine.config file and it worked. I recently upgraded to .NET v1.1 and I went into the machi...more >>

We have a database logging application running on an XP Pro Box. 2.6Ghz, 512mbRam, our program, an I/O Card with incoming part detection signals. At 12-24,000 actions per hour we are missing 1 part detect signal approximatley every 10,000 cycles. This is a function of Windows refreshing something ...more >>

Hi. I have Visual Studio.NET 2002 solution that I have converted to Visual Studio.NET 2003 by opening it in VS2003. After this operation I get non-visible members/properties when expanding objects in locals/watch. When I try to expand an object in the locals window nothing happens, the + sign ...more >>

Hi All, I'm having some issues with remote debugging and wondered if someone else had experienced this (and maybe found a way to get it to work.). What I need to do is to setup and configure a development environment for multiple developers. I have been looking all of the web (Sites,newsgr...more >>

Hy, I think I'll become mad ... I am using the DbgHelp library to perform some stack browsing to help use during dugging. I alredy read the Under The Hood article called "Improved Error Reporting with DBGHELP 5.1 APIs" but I cannot succed to get the name of my parameters type when they a...more >>

I'm having a bit of a problem working with API, and I was wondering if anyone has any resouces on the web that might be able to help me? But, (hehe) I'll post the problem here, maybe someone can help me with it... (resources still wanted lol) =) Public Function GetObjectText(ByVal hwnd A...more >>

Hello, I'm using the WinnDbg debugger extension to debug a .NET application. = I'd like to see the entries in a HashTable. My hashtable is at = 0x04b54b4c. If I do a dumpobject on the address of the buckets = (0x04b54b80) it doesn't provide me with enough information to get to the = entries (...more >>

I've got a VB .NET app that runs just fine when testing and even outside of the IDE when launched manually. But the code is supposed to run as a login script. When it tries to run, I get an unhandled exception error and I've got exception handlers throughout the code. On another machine with a...more >>

Hi, (Win XP Prof., VS/VB 2003) to get comparable results (as good as possible) when doing a performance test, I executed GC.Collect() GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers() directly before. There's a breakpoint in the code to be tested. As it hasn't be...more >>

Hello We've developed a C++/ATL ISAPI filter. This filter CoCreates a C++/ATL COM server dll that provides proprietary features. I am attempting to simultaneously remote debug both the filter and the COM server using VS.NET2003. Through the Process sub menu item under the Debug menu I connect to th...more >>

I cannot start the VS 2003 debugger on ASP.NET applications. I am using Server 2003. I get the 'ol "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server" message. If I attach to the process, I can debug normally. All directories have permissions for Administrators...more >>

I'm trying to debug an ActiveX control (ATL71) running within a third-party client application on a particular machine that I "do not own." Not to get into the gory details, but assume I cannot install a development environment on the machine, and likewise, I cannot install the client applicatio...more >>

Hi, I've recently moved from VC6 to .NET 2003. I'm finding something rather strange in the debugger though. If I break on a line of code in some function and look at variable values either using the 'Autos' or by explicitly declaring them in the 'Watch1' window, I find the variables have v...more >>

In VB6, I had the freedom of breaking my code when a value changes for a particular variable. I could do that while adding watch. In VB.NET is it possible I can add a watch and tell it to break when the value of that particular variable changes?? ...more >>

Hi All, I am wondering if anyone has had experience with the following: VB.Net has been working great and I have been writing and debugging lots of code. One day, I turn my machine on and go to debug some code (hitting F5), the project shows that it has built successfully, but once it has ...more >>

Hi all, I have the following problem: I have an unmanaged dll that I would like to debug. I have the dll project opened in .NET and I specify the executable (built with C#) from the debugger. When I run, the program works fine, but whenever I try to add a breakpoint, I get the little question ...more >>

I have an application that is resident on a web server and it is started by http://web/directory/application.exe. This has been working. It uses a remote object hosted within the same copy of IIS. This has been working. Today, I added some new methods to the remote object. They are not working....more >>

My problem started with "Unable to map the start page url to a machine name". I looked through all the docs and downloaded the rpings utility. Great but what happens when the rpings utility notifies me in the most non-descriptive way that RPC failed. All the docs and help seems to end at "down...more >>

Maybe someone can help me with a strange problem. I've been using VS to write a web site for about 3 months now and so far things are going well. Then last night, I made some changes to the code that access a database. During the rebuild, I received an error that unfortunately I didn't look at v...more >>

so i select a process to debug then vsnet complains that there's no source code. vs6 allows you to browse to the folder of the source code. other debuggers like soft-ice allow you embed source code into the image to be debugged. what is the vsnet way? Otherwise there is no point to attaching t...more >>

Hi guys! I have 2 projects in a vs.net 2003 solution. One project is a DLL Visual C++ project (not .NET) and the other is a Winforms c# project. I have made a reference to the DLL from the Winform, but the reference is not a project reference, it's a wrapper that points to the compiled Dll. ...more >>

Hi, I am unable to setup visual studio .net 2003 so that I can step into my code when my code runs in an AppDomain other that the default one. When I use the debug location tool bar to select the app domain, it complains that there is no source code available. But it's the same code that run...more >>

Is there any documentation anywhere for debugging classic ASP in .NET 2003? I'm on a Windows 2003 Server, and debugging aspx files in the same solution works just fine. The asp breakpoint never gets hit, and the web page I'm debugging comes up just fine. In the IDE, there's a question mark on the...more >>

I am a student working on getting a web application up and running on my own web server. I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003 on my Windows XP desktop to author the project that is stored on a 2003 server in my local network. I have installed the Remote Components of visual studio .NET on the ...more >>

Hello, After the installation of Office 2003 my VS 2003 doesn't debug anymore. error message ist: unable to attach to aspnet_wp.exe the suggested steps in the VS help file dont help Any idea? kind regards as ...more >>

I have a C# app with a main (GUI) thread and a second thread for IO to a WebService. In my unit testing I create and destroy the WebService IO object for each test; the main thread tells the IO thread to exit then does a ioThread.Join(); to wait for it to exit Everything seems to work fine, but wh...more >>

Hello, I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I believe I've found a bug in the .NET debugger. I'm on Win2KSP4, .NET 2003, and ..NET Framework 1.1. This bug occurs in a Managed C++ .NET project, and is manifested in the Watch Window, QuickWatch, and Tool Tips displaying incorre...more >>

Hello all, I'm getting the famous "the breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document". I have a solution that consists of 5 projects one of which is a ASP.net project. I also have a project that is for a Pocket PC app. I can debug the Pocket PC app ...more >>

I'm writing an ASP.NET application and all of a sudden my watches don't work. The "+" sign appears next to them but you cannot drill into them. (The "+" dissappears when you click it and the item does not expand). Is it possible that a change to web.config would cause this? Or is this a kno...more >>

Hi! I'm starting with VS.NET so i don't know all about it's total capabilites. I have this project in mind and i don't know if it is possible.. I want to make a Visual Studio.NET Addin that whenever an unhandled exception occurs while executing (preferrable while executing ASP.NET projec...more >>

Hi all I want to be able to debug stored procedures. I am following the KB article HOW TO: Debug Stored Procedures in Visual Studio .NET (316549) and it states that I need to right-click on the Stored Proc in Server Explorer and select Step Into Stored Procedure, but I don't have that option. ...more >>

I am using the below code this.sqlSelectCommand1.CommandText = ("SELECT * FROM Categories WHERE ID=" & Request.QueryString("id")) and getting the below error message System.Web.HttpRequest.QueryString' denotes a 'property' where a 'method' was expecte could you please tell me what the proble...more >>

All of a sudden I can not launch my ASP.NET programs on the IE 6.0. I am using Windows2000 Advanced Server Things were working fine before... I reinstalled IIS and then MS VS .NET (Enterprise development) but the problem is still there. I get the following error when trying to run the program ...more >>

When I go into certain programs, I get an error message, and visual studio opens in debug mode. How do I turn this off. I think it started when I installed the directx 9 sdk. Thanks...more >>

I just installed VS .NET 2003 on XP Pro. Created a small sample ASP.NET project. The problem is that I cannot debug it. I get the error "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Access is denied." I am under the "Debugger Users" and "VS Developers" group ...more >>

I recently installed the .NET Framework 1.1, Visual Studio, and IIS When I try to debug an ASP .NET Application or Web Service I receive the following message "Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging on the web server. You do not have permissions to debug the server. Verify ...more >>

I have a problem debugging asp.net applications. Basically whenever I single step through the code, the debugger is out of step by one or two lines. Debugging other types of applications is fine. I'm using version 1.0 of Visual Studio with the latest service packs on an XP Pro machine. I've also...more >>

I am trying to debug a series of .NET C# assemblies. The main assembly is called from IE with JavaScript so it has an exposed COM interface. I can set breakpoints in this assembly and debug it. However this assembly makes calls into several other C# assemblies. I cannot step into these assemb...more >>

While debugging I'm getting the error "no source code available for the current location". My code is written in managed (WinForms) and unmanaged C++, and this dialog appears when I try to step (or put a break point) from the managed to the unmanaged part of the code (stepping within the managed ...more >>

i reinstalled everything but the problem still persists. Really, i am tired to restart the IDE every 10 mn. -classes doesn't have constructors but i have 5 constructors -Variable xxx is not declared but variable xxx is declared=20 -Component is private.....etc...more >>

I've spent two days trying to get debugging to work with no success, and a simple solution occured to me that I haven't seen documented anywhere. VS.NET 2003 is installed on my PC, but I've been doing my development on a Server 2003, that I believe is all set up for ASP.NET. However every att...more >>

I am running Visual Studio .Net 2003 and SQL Server 2000 SP3. I set the project's "Debug SQL Server" property to True. I create a Data Adapter and fill a dataset. I edit the stored procedure in the IDE using the Server Explorer. I set a breakpoint at the first line in the stored procedure. I set...more >>

When trying to import the 'System.Xml.XPath' namespace into a VB.NET Web Application class file I get the following error in VS.NET: Namespace or type 'XPath' for the Imports 'System.Xml.XPath' cannot be found Yet the page will actually compile and run outside of VS.NET. Does anyone know what is h...more >>