Attach process at runtime in visual studio 2008

Tuesday, February 23. 2010

Attach process at runtime in visual studio 2008

I have a wcf service which has to be unittested.
The wcf service is hosted in a console application.
In the unittest, i want the possibility to debug this wcf service.
For this, the process has to be attached to the visual studio(2008 in my case) debugger.

You just have to add a reference to EnvDTE, and to add the following pice of code. With that, visual studio attaches the given process to the current debug session.

EnvDTE.DTE dte2 = (EnvDTE.DTE)System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.9.0");
EnvDTE.Debugger debugger = dte2.Debugger;
foreach (Process program in debugger.LocalProcesses)
{
if (program.Name.Contains("MyApp.exe"))
{
program.Attach();
}
}

It's handy, its easy and there is not a lot of documentation about it...
There are a lot of other EnvDTE(80/90) assemblys, and i guess they are for specific visual studio versions. But i don't see the benefit in using them.

Posted by suntsu in .net at 10:18 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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