Attach to Process – Macro for Visual Studio 2010

During today’s debugging session at Basta, I’m going to mention the following Macro which allows you to add an “Attach to IIS”-Button to your Visual Studio toolbar:

Public Module DebuggingMacros
    Public Sub AttachToWebServer() 
       Dim AspNetWp As String = "aspnet_wp.exe"
        Dim W3WP As String = "w3wp.exe" 
        If Not (AttachToProcess(W3WP)) Then

           If Not AttachToProcess(AspNetWp) Then

                System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("Can't find web server process")            End If

        End If 
    End Sub
    Public Function AttachToProcess(ByVal ProcessName As String) As Boolean

        Dim Processes As EnvDTE.Processes = DTE.Debugger.LocalProcesses

        Dim Process As EnvDTE.Process

        Dim ProcessFound As Boolean = False 
        For Each Process In Processes

           If (Process.Name.Substring(Process.Name.LastIndexOf("\") + 1) = ProcessName) Then

                Process.Attach()

                ProcessFound = True

            End If

        Next 
 
        AttachToProcess = ProcessFound 
    End Function 

End Module