Attaching to Processes

At some point you might need to attach to a process running somewhere on the computer and debug it from within the ASP.NET page. This could be the ASP.NET process, aspnet_wp.exe, or another running service, or any other program running on the server. This can be accomplished quite easily.

Under the Debug menu you will find the Processes selection. Clicking this brings up the dialog box in Figure 7.6.

Figure 7.6. Attaching to a running process.

By default, you will see only the processes that you have started in some way. If you click the Show System Processes check box, you have access to everything that is running on the current ...

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