[RESOLVED] Cannot debug ASP.Net page

[azrina]

Hi All,

I have problem to debug my ASP.Net page.
My PC system is Windows XP SP2.
I use MS Visual Studio 2005 and .Net Framework is 2.0.50727.

I also have set the breakpoint to the code, but when debug, it shows error message "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document."

I also have set the specific page to debug but when try to debug the page, it will redirect to the Default page.

I have tried this method which I found in this forum but no difference.

Hoping that anyone here can help me solve this problem.

[mendhak]

Start by clearing out your temporary ASP.NET folder. By default, it is at

C:\windows\microsoft.net\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files

First, close all instances of VS and run iisreset /stop just to be sure.

Once you've deleted those files, run iisreset /start.

Then in your web app folder, clear the bin/debug/obj folders.

Then open up your project again and try debugging.

[azrina]

I have tried your solution but it made no difference at all.

Any other workaround that I can try ?

[mendhak]

What can you tell us about your web project? Is it multiple projects? Is it a web site project or web application project?

Have you set it to use the VS Development Server or IIS?

[azrina]

It is a web application.

I have created and configured virtual directory in IIS manager.

This web works fine in browser but encountered problems are not able to debug the page and when I specify the start page and start debugging, browser will not go to the start page but it will redirect to Default page.

I have tried to edit hosts file in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc by commenting the first line code.

# 127.0.0.1 localhost

The page able to debug and browser display the start page as setting.

The strange things is when I restart my PC, it wont be able to work anymore.

Hope someone can help.

[azrina]

I just found the reason why I cannot debug and the page always redirect to default page.

I must uncheck automatic configuration script in LAN settings.

Why must I uncheck this setting ? How it relate to debugging and page redirecting ? Anyone can answer ?

Thanks to you all for given solutions/opinions.

[mendhak]

Ah yes, that makes sense. Apologies for not mentioning it, but it's something very hard to guess at.

What probably happened was that everytime your browser attempted to go to localhost/virtualdir, the script wouldn't recognize localhost properly and so you got an error, because of the scripts.

However, please don't comment out the 127.0.0.1 line in your hosts file, that hosts file is used by a lot of applications and you may face unexpected behavior, even failures in other apps.