A lot of the "attach debugger" macros I found only show you how to attach to the W3WP.exe process for debugging. Well I run multiple sites under different app pools so I sometimes have multiple W3WP.exe's running and need to debug a specific one. In this case I wanted to attach to a specific IIS process.
First off note that I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5 and I have separate application pools for each site with different User Names for each process:
So I want to target the "test.testsite.com" process... Here's the Macro code:
(Code is in VB.NET)
Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports EnvDTE90
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Module Attach_W3WP
Public Sub AttachToIIS()
Try
Dim dbg2 As EnvDTE80.Debugger2 = DTE.Debugger
Dim trans As EnvDTE80.Transport = dbg2.Transports.Item("Default")
Dim dbgeng(2) As EnvDTE80.Engine
dbgeng(0) = trans.Engines.Item("Managed")
Dim proc2 As EnvDTE.Processes = _
dbg2.GetProcesses(trans, Environment.MachineName)
For Each proc As EnvDTE80.Process2 In proc2
If proc.UserName <> Nothing Then
Dim name As String = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(proc.Name)
If name = "w3wp.exe" AndAlso proc.UserName.Contains("test.testsite.com") Then
proc.Attach2(dbgeng)
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
Catch ex As System.Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub
End Module
The important line is:
If name = "w3wp.exe" AndAlso proc.UserName.Contains("test.testsite.com") Then
Just replace "test.testsite.com" with the user of the process you want to target.
Run the macro and it should attach to the correct W3WP.exe process.