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Hi everyone, i'm new in this forum.  

I'm Create ASP.NET Application in SharpDevelop(Version is 2.0.0.1591)

To Run, SharpDevelop  gives me this Information:

Project is configured as dll and no execution command is specified.
You can specifiy an execution command in the project options.

 How Debug in SharpDevelop!

 thank

I would also like to know... Maybe SharpDevelop can't hook up the aspnet_wp.exe process? In project properties - Debug you can set Start browser in URL to e.g. http://localhost/application/ , but it will not fire the debugger. At least not for me.

Debugging ASP.NET is not supported as SharpDevelop's debugger is unable to attach to existing process. And the core team doesn't support ASP.NET (we have enough other things to spend our time on); the only input from the community we got so far was that ASP.NET project template.

As Daniel explained, SharpDevelop's debugger cannot attach to processes so you cannot debug your ASP.NET pages with IIS. You can however use Cassini instead. You just need to configure the "Start external program" and the "Command line arguments" in the project properties (Debug tab).

You can also develop your code assemblies in #develop then use DbcClr.exe (comes with the .NET SDK distributions) as a debugger that supports "Atttach to Process.."

Then you point a browser to your app (must be hosted on your local machine of course) to start up the ASP.NET worker process (aspnet_wp.exe) and use DbcClr.exe's  "Attach to Process" feature to monitor that process.  Open a file (cs, vb, even aspx, etc), set a breakpoint, then trigger that code functionality through your browser and DbgClr will stop.

 I have used this setup extensively as i prefer #d to Visual Studio and code the HTML/CSS part of ASP.NET by hand.
 

I use Cassini for debugging purposes - creating the small server project among the asp project (in the same workplace of course). In the server project I am creating the Server class instance (from the Cassini assembly). Since then I have debugging feature - probably everything u need can be acheved this way...

 

Regards,

That sounds awesome! I think you might want to contribute to the code and pack the web server as an inprocess compoonent in #develop so it could debug asp.net properly? I think a lot of people would really need this feature. I wanted to use #develop because VS 2005 does not integrate well with svn and I am using MonoRail, which the free VWD does not work because it wont build dlls into single file (the hell asp.net 2.0 project structure...)

Roland Żerek:

I use Cassini for debugging purposes - creating the small server project among the asp project (in the same workplace of course). In the server project I am creating the Server class instance (from the Cassini assembly). Since then I have debugging feature - probably everything u need can be acheved this way...

Roland: That sounds great! Can you attach a sample asp.net project using the cassini web server for debugging purposes? I would really appreciate it.

heureka:

Roland Żerek:

I use Cassini for debugging purposes - creating the small server project among the asp project (in the same workplace of course). In the server project I am creating the Server class instance (from the Cassini assembly). Since then I have debugging feature - probably everything u need can be acheved this way...

Roland: That sounds great! Can you attach a sample asp.net project using the cassini web server for debugging purposes? I would really appreciate it.

 No problem. Here's simple page (generated from #D template) running on cassini.
 

goodwill1120:

... I think you might want to contribute to the code and pack the web server as an inprocess compoonent in #develop so it could debug asp.net properly?

Being honest I didn't think about it - current solution is enough for me since I can develop ASP with #D :) However I can thing about real solution when having free time...

Roland Żerek:

No problem. Here's simple page (generated from #D template) running on cassini.

Excellent. Thanks Roland.

Has anyone still got a demo zip?  I've tried setting up a project with cassini and it works but my code in the web app does not stop on breakpoints.  Stuck!

I've put toghether an ASP.NET Debugging sample solution. I don't know if this is the best way of doing it but it works for me.

How to debug ASP.NET applications in SharpDevelop

/Erik 

DanielGrunwald:

Debugging ASP.NET is not supported as SharpDevelop's debugger is unable to attach to existing process. And the core team doesn't support ASP.NET (we have enough other things to spend our time on); the only input from the community we got so far was that ASP.NET project template.

For the love of God, man! .NET is for the Web!  If you do not support ASP.NET then #D is for desktop applications?  Or the core team have an alternative to ASP.NET?

Erik,

Thanks a lot for posting this, works great for me.  Take care.

Regards,

Kyle