When someone says "live" I equate that to "production." Staging isn't live. It's not mission critical. "Live" is user-facing and activated and in-use and possibly enterprise-driving.
Remote debugging can be a pain. Usually is. But if you've got the remote debug components in place and you can attach to the process, as the OP indicated, it's just like debugging locally. If the "live" server doesn't have .pdb symbol files, which a production server shouldn't, I believe you should be able to reference the .pdbs in the build directory that matches the set of assemblies on the server. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Cerebrus<[email protected]> wrote: > > That may be so, Andrew, but there are various types of remote servers > - Staging servers, Test servers, Development servers etc. Remote > Debugging on such a server is a useful trick. I happen to have tried > it once earlier and was unsuccesful, just like the OP. So, I'm very > interested to know the answer to this one. > > > On Sep 3, 9:49 pm, Andrew Badera <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Short answer: you don't. Most people in their right minds wouldn't >> attach to a live process for debug. >> >> Long answer: you should be building flexible logging and tracing into >> your code for these scenarios. log4net and the Enterprise Library >> Exception Handling Application Block (EHAB) and Logging Application >> Block (LAB) work well for this. You can turn tracing off or on from >> the config file, so you wrap all operations in a trace. When you turn >> it on, you get a trace log of all activities, so you know where >> processing was at when an error occurred. >> >> Use exception handling and tunable-logging to send more or less, >> richer or poor, details to the log. Again, this stuff is set in the >> config file. You see problems, you turn it on. Problems solved? Turn >> it off. >> >> ∞ Andy Badera >> ∞ +1 518-641-1280 >> ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private >> ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera)- >> Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - >
