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Debugging goodness from Steve Harman

I was working with the dotText MetaBlog API recently and came upon this excellent post from Steve Harmon on rooting out and fixing a dotText bug when editing a post in wBloggar. I then noticed his statement on how he found the error in debug mode and it aroused my curiousity on how he was able to walk through the a dotText metablog.cs method when it was being called from wBloggar.

So I emailed Steve and not only did he reply he posted a valuable article on how to do just that. I didn't get it at first because my Windows 2003 Server Processes list looked different from Steve's. Also, to attach to the launched VS.NET process I first had to click on the "Show system processes" checkbox so it would display in the list, but otherwise Steve nailed it and I was stepping through the dotText metablog class after clicking on the "get recent posts" button in wBloggar.

Thanks, Steve!

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Posted on 2/12/2005 7:55:00 PM by Dave Burke
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2/13/2005 11:17:00 AM Permalink

Good catch Dave. I should have pointed out in my article that in my setup, i was running on my development box (WinXP), rather than on my production box (Win2k Server). In this situation, the ASPNET worker process runs under my (user) profile. Since on your Win2k3 Server it is running under the SYSTEM profile (as a service) you would indeed need to "Show system processes" as well. Good work!

Steven Harman |

2/13/2005 1:53:00 PM Permalink

Thanks, Steve. You did all the brain work. I just clicked on some stuff. Thanks again for posting the debugging article.

Dave Burke |

2/14/2005 10:25:00 AM Permalink

This is very useful. A lot of debugging I do is dealing with the Plumtree Portal and it calls our .NET applications....and our applications depend on data from Plumtree, etc. so debugging the code on my local machine is fine at first but to really test it I have to have my stuff on the server running the portal.

Erik Lane |

2/14/2005 10:32:00 AM Permalink

Erik, Glad you found it useful. For me, I knew there had to be a way to step through .NET code from another application and Steve had the keys. Thanks very much for your comment.

Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

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