How to debug a process using Visual Studio?
- by Ian Boyd
If an application† crashes:
i hit "Debug" and Visual Studio is my currently registered Just-In-Time (JIT) debugger:
Visual Studio appears, but there's no way to debug anything:
i do not see any disassembly.
i do not see any symbols
i do not see reconstructed source code from reflection
i do not see any registers
the call stack is empty
Other JIT debugger products are able to show disassembly, but they are either command-line based (Debugging Tools for Windows), or do not support symbols (OllyDbg, Delphi). Additionally, my question is about debugging using Visual Studio, since i already have it installed, and is already my registered JIT.
How do you debug a program using Visual Studio?
Alternatively: has anyone written a graphical debugger that supports the Microsoft symbol server?
† not, necessarily, written in Visual Studio
Edit: Changes title to process rather than application, since the latter somehow implies "my application."