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Learning Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Azure A comprehensive guide to cloud application development using Microsoft Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782173373
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Geoff Webber Cross Geoff Webber Cross
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Azure FREE CHAPTER 2. Designing a System for Microsoft Azure 3. Starting to Develop with Microsoft Azure 4. Creating and Managing a Windows Azure SQL Server Database 5. Building Azure MVC Websites 6. Azure Website Diagnostics and Debugging 7. Azure Service Bus Topic Integration 8. Building Worker Roles 9. Cloud Service Diagnostics, Debugging, and Configuration 10. Web API and Client Integration 11. Integrating a Mobile Application Using Mobile Services 12. Preparing an Azure System for Production Index

Remote debugging


Worker roles support remote debugging, which is a really useful feature to help you debug a system deployed to the cloud. To get started with this, we need to publish our role in the Debug configuration so that we can successfully attach the debugger to it:

In the Advanced Settings tab, check Enable Remote Debugger for all roles. I've also checked Enable IntelliTrace, so we can look at this too:

We can debug an entire role or an individual instance from the Visual Studio Server Explorer window. If we choose to debug an entire role, the debugger will break on the first instance to run into the break point; debugging multiple instances is similar to debugging multithreaded applications, which can sometimes be a little confusing, so if you're not debugging a concurrency issue, it's probably easier to debug a single instance.

To start debugging in Visual Studio from the Server Explorer window, choose a role or an instance, right-click on it, and select Attach Debugger...:

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