Remote Debugging Setup

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Visual Studio supports remote debugging from one computer to another. When you are doing remote debugging, the host computer can be any platform that supports Visual Studio. The remote computer can be a 32-bit (Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003) or 64-bit (IA64, IA64 WOW mode, x64, or x64 WOW mode) platform.

In This Section

How to: Set Up Remote Debugging: Steps for setting up remote debugging.
How to: Run the Remote Debugging Monitor: Steps for running the Remote Debugging Monitor, which is a small program that runs on the remote computer and enables you to attach for remote debugging.
Remote Debugging Across Domains: Provides steps for debugging across domains that do not have "two-way" trust.
Remote Debugging of a Project Built Locally: Discusses how to change your local project settings to run an executable on a remote computer.
Remote Debugging Errors and Troubleshooting: Describes various remote debugging errors and provides solutions.

Related Sections

Debug Settings and Preparation: Covers the settings and preparation that you must perform to debug your program by using the Visual Studio debugger.

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Debugger Security

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D. Woodward

Windows 2000???

The article says it applies to Visual Studio 2010 remote debugger and "The remote computer can be a 32-bit (Windows Vista, Windows 2000...". However, I consistently get "msvsmon.exe is not a valid Win32 application" when I try to run the remote debugger on a Windows 2000 system. I searched the web and found another article (below) that contains a comment from a Microsoft employee saying that it will never work on Windows 2000.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/thread/51d28ce1-38e5-48b5-a51a-7f538c26f623