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In VS2010, is there a way to know which application pool a given w3wp.exe is serving, to then decide to attach the debugger to?


So I'm debugging some websites (one from trunk, one from branch) running locally, in separate apppools. I have trunk and branch solutions open in two VS instances. I'd like to debug trunk in one, and branch in the other. I'd like to know if there's a way to know which application pool each w3wp.exe is serving, to know which one is which when attaching the debugger.

Update: the point of this is to write a macro within VS to then let me have a button (per app-pool that is interesting) which will be clickable to attach the debugger to. So solutions should preferably not involve other programs.

Update2: this is on Windows 7 against IIS7.


Solution

  • Another option would be the WADA - W3WP Advanced Attacher available in the Visual Studio Gallery. I found it by searching in the Online Gallery of Extension Manager for "attach worker".