Debugging Classic ASP in Visual Studio 2005

I couldn’t find a lot of documentation on how to debug the classic ASP pages in VS 2005 running on Windows XP and IIS 5.0. So I tried few stuff and finally figured it out. Here are the steps:

• Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management. Add IWAM_ComputerName account to the Debugger Users group.
• Create a Web Application Project in VS 2005 and add .asp files.
• Create a virtual directory in IIS for the web application project you created.
• On the properties tab of the virtual directory in IIS do the following:
• Click Configuration button.
• On the Mappings tab, select .asp and click Edit
• Add the DEBUG verb and click OK.
• Go to Debugging tab.
• Enable the ASP debugging and Client Side Debugging, Save the changes.
• Load the web application project and set the breakpoint in the ASP.
• In VS 2005, go to Debug > Attach to Process.
• Select the DLLHost process that runs under the IWAM_ComputerName account.
• Load the .asp file in the browser and break point will bind now.

Happy Coding,

Madhu