We put a lot of work into Visual Studio 2005 to make remote debugging easier. One advance was to embed support for detecting and adding exceptions to the Windows Firewall. So, if you run the remote debugger (msvsmon.exe) it will detect if the firewall...

There are times that you need to debug the startup code for an application, but something else is launching the application. Classic examples might be services or setup custom actions. Luckily, the OS team came up with a way to debug these problems: ...

Back in April of last year I blogged about solving some of the reasons why people run into 'debugger is not properly installed' errors. Today, I would like to add some addendums. First, make sure you go through all the original steps first. This blog...