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Will
Will

Reputation: 3585

Is it possible to debug a Windows Desktop Application over the internet?

I constantly run into problems where a program runs fine on my system (installed and in development environments) but fails on a users system.

The best solution I can conceive is to debug the program on the users computer, but that's not practical since it would require me to install VS on their system and move the source code over (and doing so would compromise the integrity of the test environment anyway since it may cause the bug to vanish).

I want to remote debug but what I'm reading from the MSDN says to me "Nope, you can't do that unless both systems are on the same network (all. my. rage.)" :

Network configuration The remote computer and the Visual Studio computer must be connected over a network, workgroup, or homegroup, or else connected directly through an Ethernet cable. Debugging over the Internet is not supported.

Is there another option I can use to connect to the process that is running on another system outside my network?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2107

Answers (2)

Mert Gülsoy
Mert Gülsoy

Reputation: 2919

You can use a tunneling application (like hamachi). This will allow you to connect the other party like you're on the same network. Then you can use the remote debugging option. But even in local network remote debugging works slow and sometimes fail with code-optimized builds. Before using the "remote debugger" (by assuming there is any exceptions) I suggest to log all exceptions to a log file then watch the system. It will be helpful to put .pdb files to the remote system to see the relations between code.

Upvotes: 1

Vlad Feinstein
Vlad Feinstein

Reputation: 11311

A partial solution (for the case that throws an exception).

Instead of trying to reach client app over the Internet, generate crash dump and debug it locally, in a comfort of your home :). Please see MSDN for details.

Upvotes: 1

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