How attach to aspnet_wp under Vista?

[Ronald S. Cook]

Under Xp (and using VS2005), I'm used to manually attaching to aspnet_wp in
order to debug an IIS service from within my IDE.

Now that I'm on Vista, however, I don't see aspnet_wp listed. Is there
something new to attach to or an alternate way of doing it now?

Thanks,
Ron

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Ronald,

I'm just guessing here, but I think that it is because you are more than
likely running as a regular user account while developing (which is a good
thing). Because of this, you can't see the process. If you run under an
administrative account, can you see the process?

 

[Ronald S. Cook]

Yeah, am running as admin. Is is still aspnet_wp under Vista or something
else? I remember once not being able to see aspnet_wp under XP and I
somehow had to "kick in" the service so it would be running so that it would
show up on the list.

Thanks,
Ron

Ronald,

I'm just guessing here, but I think that it is because you are more
than likely running as a regular user account while developing (which is a
good thing). Because of this, you can't see the process. If you run
under an administrative account, can you see the process?


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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Under Xp (and using VS2005), I'm used to manually attaching to aspnet_wp
in order to debug an IIS service from within my IDE.

Now that I'm on Vista, however, I don't see aspnet_wp listed. Is there
something new to attach to or an alternate way of doing it now?

Thanks,
Ron

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Yeah, am running as admin. Is is still aspnet_wp under Vista or something
else? I remember once not being able to see aspnet_wp under XP and I
somehow had to "kick in" the service so it would be running so that it
would show up on the list.

The aspnet worker process is called w3wp.exe or the IIS Worker Process with
IIS7 on Vista. And if you have gotten that far you are using Run As
Administrator when you started VS 2005, otherwise, you won't have the
privileges needed to do development work, even if you are an Admin on the
Vista computer.

This link may help you. You may need the patch.

<http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/arch...-available-for-debugging-asp-net-on-iis7.aspx>

You can see all processes running with Process Explorer for Vista (free)
that Task Manager may not show you.