Whenever I hit debug in Visual Studio, it deploys the website into IIS / Compute Emulator and gives the following message:
There was an error attaching the debugger to the IIS worker process for URL 'http://127.255.0.0:82/' for role instance 'deployment18(521).TestApp.Azure.Website1.Web.UI_IN_0'. Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging. More information may be available by starting the project without debugging.
Then when I look at the debugger log it says:
http://127.255.0.0:82/debugattach.aspx
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Status code=417 (Expectation Failed)
Protocol version=1.1
Cached=False
Content-Length=60
Cache-Control=private, no-transform
Content-Type=text/html
Date=Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:52:08 GMT
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The page cannot be displayed because the expectation failed.
Does anyone have any ideas?
After using Failed Request Tracing I was able to see that my Application Initialization (Web-AppInit) (the new initialization feature in IIS 8.0) configuration was making the debugging fail.
So the message is: don't expect to be able to debug your web application if you have preloadEnabled and an applicationInitialization config section a bit like this:
<applicationInitialization doAppInitAfterRestart="true" remapManagedRequestsTo="loading.html" skipManagedModules="true">
<add initializationPage="/" />
</applicationInitialization>
I will be putting this into the web.release.config file so it only takes effect in production.