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  James Newton...

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  Debug at design-time (ASP.NET 2.0)

  Jan 24, 2006 08:39 PM|LINK

  How do you debug a server control at design time in VS?
  
  I've tried attaching a debugger to devenv.exe but VS crashes almost right away.
  
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  billreiss

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  Re: Debug at design-time (ASP.NET 2.0)

  Jan 31, 2006 12:43 PM|LINK

  I've been able to successfully launch 2 copies of devenv.exe and attach to one from the other to debug the design mode of a server control. Not sure what might be different about what you are doing. One thing I did do was have both the web project and the web control library project in the same solution, and in the web control project, the reference to the web control library was a "project" reference.

  I'm wondering how hard it would be to host the server control in design mode in a WinForm app (kind of like the ActiveX Control Test Container), seems like that would be a nice little tool to have around.

   

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  r2musings

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  Re: Debug at design-time (ASP.NET 2.0)

  Jan 31, 2006 09:06 PM|LINK

  To debug your control at design time, try this:

  1. Open your control's project in VS2005. 
  2. Right-click the project in the Solution Explorer. 
  3. Choose Properties and go to the Debug Tab.
  4. In the Start Action area, select Start External Program.
  5. Browse to your devenv.exe and select that. 
  6. Place your breakpoints and then Start Debugging.
  7. Open another instance of VS2005 and open your web site in this one.
  8. Make sure your control is available. 
  9. When you drop it onto your form, you should be debugging back in the other VS2005.

  Works for me anyway.  Let me know if that doesn't work.

  Rik 

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  Rik Robinson
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