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Remote debugging Windows azure cloud service - Worker Role


Remote debugging Windows azure cloud service - Worker Role

Very recently I was working on design and development of a worker role component of cloud service. Locally debugging worker role is pretty easy. You just need to know that you need to set Cloud project as a start-up project and ready to go.
Problem is when you deploy worker role to azure and trying to troubleshoot an unknown issue.  Thankfully we have remote debugging enable for cloud services – both web and worker roles. This is really handy tool to remotely debug without having to putting a lot of tracing and digging into it. However, remote debugging in worker role/web role requires few steps to be followed:
  • Make sure you are debugging from same machine where you published
  • Make sure to turn on Remote debugger on while you publish (This should be turned off for Production publish profiles)
  • Make sure to Select Debug mode
  • With all the above settings after you publish, you should be able to Attach Debugger as shown below picture
 
  • For Worker role, you need to make sure to select WaWorkerHost.exe process. For Web role, you can select W3wp.exe
  • Now the process should hit the break points in your code.
Happy Coding!!! 

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