Debugging the logic of a deployed solution on SharePoint 2010 through Visual Studio

Question

I have deployed a solution on a server farm and wish to be able to debug the solution's logic whilst it is running on the server farm, since the problem resides in there, Is there any way or mean by which it is possible to debug a solution (.wsp) which was deployed on a server farm, through the visual studio?

Answer 1

You can either click F5 in Visual Studio and it will deploy the solution and attach a debugger to the appropriate SharePoint process. This can be a little slow but it allows you to debug your code.

You can also manually attach to the SharePoint process from Visual Studio. Go to Debug-->Attach to Process-->Check show processes from all users and sessions-->Select all w3wp.exe processes-->Click attach.