I am trying to debug razor view pages in umbraco and I can't find the process to attach to using Visual Studio 2022 Community IIS and Google Chrome .NET Core 7 and Umbraco 13, anyone got any advice?

When using IIS u can usually attach to the w3wp process

Remember to run Visual Studio as an Administrator so it can see the process

It sees the process without it though, but will notify it needs to be in administrator mode to actually connect 🙂

My shortcut to VS is always set to Run as Admin so I don't have to restart VS in order to attach to IIS as that's such a pain. Probably doing it less now as I'm using IIS less locally for modern sites.

there doesn't seem to be a w3wp process and I am using IIS https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1192248052744990791/1192490165936083106/image.png?ex=65a94402&is=6596cf02&hm=d24527aa0c45965e6211f400f51885a0cb173381a6d6b75a8fdc453e913fedae&

Do you have a checkbox with, 'show all processes' ?

hi, yes it is running and I have show all processes checked, thanks for the help so far 🙂

Is your website started in IIs?

Make sure after deploying to your local IIS folder you hit a page. IIS doesn't spin a site up until it needs to (or feels like it).

Apologies guys, I have been starting it up through IIS Express through visual studio, I haven't explicitly been deploying it to my local IIS

@User May I suggest “people” instead of "guys"? We use gender inclusive language in this Discord. 😀

thanks for the help, I'll try this out!

Check your build is a Debug build (first dropdown in the top menu buttons). You shouldn't need to attach to a process - just F5 - start with debugging should be enough. I have had this before - are the breakpoints a solid red or greyed out? I think it was a setting in VS in the end... google was my friend, sorry can't recall exactly what was turned off / on

For iis express you can just hit the debug button in visualstudio/rider, no attaching is necessary indeed

I see, I have enabled debug in the appsettings and am running the app in debug mode, the breakpoints are red when the code is valid and compiles, however I don't get any compiler errors when the code isn't valid, which is preventing me from debugging properly as it could be anything that is causing the errors

Is the code you are debugging inside of the project you started? 😅

yes, I guess I'm answering the question for myself xD I forget Razor is compiled code so all I need to do is restart the project lol

Haha!

thanks for the help!

Anytime!