Attaching a Debugger to a Process in Visual Studio 2010

Ever have one of your applications running out of visual studio, but need to debug a method? An awesome feature you can utilize, if you are not using the express version of Visual Studio, is attaching the debugger in Visual Studio to a process currently running on your computer.

Step 1 : Open up the Attach to Process option.

Attach To Process

Step 2 : Attach the Process

Select the process which coincides with your solution in Visual Studio, and select Attach. This will perform the link.

Afterwards, your visual studio will be in run mode ready to debug.

More Information :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c6wf8e4z.aspx

Jacob Saylor

Software developer in Kentucky

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