Had this problem the other day when trying to debug an ASP.NET web application, after hitting F5, a message box pops up saying “Unable to attach to application ‘WebDev.Webserver.EXE’ (PID:xxxxx) using {my machine name}”. Had me for a while, untill I decide to disable my AV software at which point it starts to work again. [...]
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Tag Archives: Debugging
Debugging .NET Serialization Code
Just what is your XmlSerializer doing? You can find out by debugging the serialization code which is generated automatically at runtime; 1. Modify your .config file to include the following snippet 2. Rebuild your code and set a breakpoint on or just after where you create an instance of the XmlSerializer, but before you call [...]
Read moreUnable to run tests in VS 2008 Unit Testing
Had a problem today trying to run tests in Visual Studio 2008, where the test run would complete saying that all tests were not executed. A look in the test run details shoed the following error message; “Code coverage collection error: The Visual Studio performance and coverage logging engine is already running on the computer. [...]
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April 24, 2009

