Your friend iisapp.vbs (VS Remote Debugging)
If you are going
to do a remote debugging with Visual Studio, you will need to know
exactly which processes you want to debug. In case you are working with
some web application linked to IIS 6.0 (WS 2003), you should be careful
and know its corresponding application pool.
Each application
pool has one or more worker processes and they are unique to the
application pool and are not shared across application pools. See the
Web Garden section in the screenshot that follows:
Therefore,
if you are going to debug your remote web application, you will need to
attach to all the worker processes (w3wp.exe) from Visual Studio:
In the server side, you should see the connection:
However,
if you have many application pools, to find out which are your needed
w3wp.exe process will be a heavy task. Now you will need our useful
script iisapp.vbs (~/System32/iisapp.vbs) that show us a summary of
processes and application pools:
Note: Don’t forget to place the pdb files in the assembly folder of the remote server !!