Which files are necessary to remote debug a .NET program?

Question

I deployed a .NET program(32 bit) on a "clean" Windows XP with only .NET Framework installed. Now I want to remote debug it using VS2008 on another machine. Before that I need to copy some necessary files to the remote machine that located under C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS. But what exactly these files are? I don't want to copy all the things in the directory to mess up the remote machine. Thanks.

Answer 1

Hello padora,

If we own these two machines, I think the files we need to copy are about the msvsmon.exe (usually, the whole folder) which is under <Drive>:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86 directory by default (in Windows XP). Another file we may consider to copy is the symbol files which are located under the project directory.

We copy the msvsmon.exe folder to the remote machine to make sure both the remote machine and the local machine run the same version monitor process, while we copy the symbol files to get rich debug information.

Best regards,

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