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Question

I am dealing with a puzzling situation here,and need any help I can get . I am using Visual Studio 2008 and have a dev site running on IIS. When I Attach to the process running in IIS, it attaches successfully(no errors). However when I attempt to debug, nothing happens. I have closed out my browser, done a restart on the application pool, and website, cleared cache, and even forced a rebuild in visual studio. Still I am unable to step into code. Any idea what I could have wrong here?

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document.

Answer 1

Check if you have you set compilation debug=”true” in you web.config file?

Answer 2

Your symbols might be wrong or missing. In extra rare circumstances you might need to step inside the function via assembly, only then VS picks up that you're actually calling your component.

Answer 3

I believe you need to debug the website from within Visual Studio in order for breakpoints to be hit. Use the green "play" button, or use F5, or just go to Debug > Start Debugging.