Debugging VB6 DLLs from ASP.NET

[Mike Wilmot]

Debugging VS6 DLLs from VS6 rocked. The only article I found to do
this from VS.NET is:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811658&Product=vsnet

Is this as good as it gets????

Cheers-
Mike Wilmot

 

[John Soulis [MSFT]]

Hello Mike,
Please explain the problems you are having with this implementation of the
debugger and I might be able to provide you with additional information
addressing those problems.
Thank you,
John Soulis
Microsoft, ASP.NET

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[Mike Wilmot]

John-
I think I got the (unfortunate) response to this issue (below).

Thanks-
MJW

Chris-
Thanks. We want to have the old behavior where you could step
directly into the VB6 UI from ASP.NET and change code in the dll if we
want without recompiling, etc... I have looked at Google and it looks
like there are a lot of folks frustrated with this lack of default/old
functionality.

We are using VS.NET2003.

It used to be you could hit the "Run" button in VB6, set a break
point, and when you debugged the ASP process, it would hit your
breakpoint in VB6 (and switch IDEs). The method described in the
article I sent is very 'cludgey' and often hangs the machine where we
get a hung ASP process and a new one gets spawned and the debugging
and even website is unresponsive. We spent about a day on this b/c of
the time savings we get from being able to debug DLL code .

Thanks-
Mike Wilmot
Microsoft Consulting Denver Alum... 1998-2003


Ah, I believe I understand the issue now. We have received a fair
amount
of feedback that that functionality was widely appreciated in VS6, and
that
it was missed when it wasn't available with VS.NET. (I believe it was
a
feature of the underlying technology in VB6, which changed with the
advent
of VS.NET.) That's why we're working hard to allow the same behavior
with
the next version of VS.NET. In the meantime, yes, I believe the
article
you found accurately describes what can be done with the current
version of
VS.NET.

-Chris Cook
Visual Studio Debugger UI

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