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Visual Studio Remote Debugging a service

Asked 2011-07-18T23:01:10.223
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I'm trying to remote debug a service using visual studio 2005.

When I run msvsmon.exe as an application, I get the UI and I can change it to noauth and anyuser, then when i try to attach to the process from visual studio remotely, i get an erro saying that it can't attach to a process being run in a session that msvsmon.exe isn't running in. The session of the service is 0.

So I can successfully run msvsmon.exe as a service, but I can't set it up to be in /noauth and /anyuser mode.

The binPath for the service is: "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86\msvsmon.exe" /service msvsmon90

both /noauth and /anyuser are the commandline switches for msvsmon.

Filling out the 'start parameters' in the service properties window doesn't affect anything.

changing the binPath of the service to:

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86\msvsmon.exe" /service msvsmon90 /noauth /anyuser

also does not work (as the service fails to start properly).

How do i get the remote debugging monitor to run as a service in noauth and anyuser mode?

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You will need an additional switch that supresses the warning since the program will actually not start but stuck in a warning message this case (you can check btw when add a /port:xxx argument and see that without the supressing there are no listener at the specified port).

So the working example:

    psexec –sd –i 0 "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86\msvsmon.exe" /noauth /anyuser /port:4000 /nosecuritywarn
answered 2013-04-17T12:35:46.370

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