Had issues debugging a web application on Vista, it kept complaining that Integrated Authentication was necessary. So goggled around and came across this post on Rick's Strahl's blog, and decided to install VS2005 SP1. The VS2005 SP1 setup experience in my case was horrible. it ended up being a memory hog brought the machine down to near halt, and that was just the setup initialization. I would advise folks to run the setup overnight if all they got is 1GB of Ram on their Vista boxes/notebook.
So anyways coming back to Web Debugging on Vista, the first complaint was Windows Authentication which is not installed by default on IIS7. (Oh yes, before anything you need to install IIS 6 Compatibility mode onto IIS7 i.e. Control panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows Features On and Off -> Internet Information Services -> Web Management Tools -> IIS6 Compatibility)
So go to Control panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows Features On and Off -> Internet Information Services -> World Wide Web -> Security -> and Check Windows Authentication.
Vs2005 will then complain that an authentication error occurred when you try to start debugging.
As Rick mentioned VS2005 SP1 is supposed to enable the Web Debugger to attach to ASP.net on the integrated pipeline, but that doesn’t work, the alternative as was pointed in comments on Scot Guthrie’s blog.
Further details; check ScotGu's post and MSDN VS2005 Vista Issues page.
tags:
Vista,
VS 2005,
ASP.NET,
Debugging