[RESOLVED] Debug whilst impersonating domain user using Development web server

[Fishcake]

I have a .net 3.5 asp.net web service that impersonates a domain user

<identity impersonate="true" userName="Domain\TMHost" password="password"/>

If I deploy this WS to IIS it works fine but I cannot get it to work within Visual Studio using the Development Webserver.

Here is an example of an entry from my Event Log

Exception information: 
    Exception type: HttpException 
    Exception message: Failed to start monitoring changes to 'C:\1work\temp\NotificationWatcherWebServiceClean2010\NotificationWatcherWebService\NotificationWatcherWebService\global.asax'. 
 
Request information: 
    Request URL: http://localhost:1913/NotificationWatcherWebService/Service.asmx 
    Request path: /NotificationWatcherWebService/Service.asmx 
    User host address: 127.0.0.1 
    User:  
    Is authenticated: False 
    Authentication Type:  
    Thread account name: Domain\TMHost 
 
Thread information: 
    Thread ID: 8 
    Thread account name: Domain\TMHost 
    Is impersonating: False 
    Stack trace:    at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.ReportTopLevelCompilationException()
   at System.Web.Compilation.BuildManager.EnsureTopLevelFilesCompiled()
   at System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.Initialize(ApplicationManager appManager, IApplicationHost appHost, IConfigMapPathFactory configMapPathFactory, HostingEnvironmentParameters hostingParameters)

By the way I don't have a global.asax within my project although I tried adding 1 and gave everyone full permissions to it, but to no avail.

I've been struggling with this for hours so any help massively appreciated.

[gep13]

Hello,

There are some things that the built in Web Server within Visual Studio simply can't do, and I "think" that this is one of them.

Can you not simply use IIS to do the debugging? If you don't want to use the full IIS, have you considered using IIS Express?

Gary

[Fishcake]

That works perfectly fine. Cheers Gary.

[Fishcake]

Actually, after setting the project to use IIS and creating a virtual directory, I can also now use the built in web server to debug it.

So what has happened in creating a virtual directory to make it now work using the development web server? It must be more than setting permissions as in my desperation I had given "everyone" full control to try and get it working.

[gep13]

Not a problem at all.

Gary

[gep13]

Hello,

Interesting! I am not sure what changes are made during this process.

Gary