Visual Studio Debugging is not attaching to WebDev.WebServer.EXE

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Published on 2009-10-14T15:26:13Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 17:33 UTC
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I have a solution with many projects. On Debug, I have three web projects that I want to start up on their own Cassini ASP.NET Web Development servers. In the Solution Properties - Common Properties - Startup Project, I have Multiple startup projects chosen with the three web applications' Action set to Start. All three web development servers start, and all three web pages load.

However, Visual Studio is only attaching to two of the WebDev.WebServer.EXE processes. I have to manually go attach to the third process in order to debug it with the debugger.

This behavior just started happening, and I'm at a loss as to how to troubleshoot this. Any help is appreciated.

EDIT:

Also to note, I have stopped and restarted the development servers several times with no change in behavior. Also, when attaching to the process manually, I see that the Type property of the two automatically attached WebDev.WebServer.EXE processes is Managed, while the Type property of the unattached WebDev.WebServer.EXE process is TSQL, Managed, x86. When looking at the project's properties, however, I am targeting AnyCPU, and do NOT have SQL Server debugging enabled.

EDIT:

Also to note, the two projects that attach correctly are C# web applications.

<ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>

The project that is not attaching correctly is a VB.NET web application.

<ProjectTypeGuids>{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}</ProjectTypeGuids>

EDIT:

Also to note, the behavior is the same on another workstation. So odds are that it's not a machine specific problem.

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