Visual Studio 2013 remote debug process in Windows XP

Question

I have a development machine running Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2013. The target framework is .NET 3.5.

Now I want to remote debug on a Windows XP system but this seems impossible:

• msvsmon.exe does not start
• installing remote tools from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx does not work

All I can find from MS is to use VS Studio 2010 Express for debugging.

Is there any hack to remote debug in windows xp anyway?

Answer 1

Sorry for the inconvenience, but since the remote tools are freely available for each version, we have made the decision that the cost to keep backward compatibility working is not something we can afford. Additionally, starting with VS2012 we use an entirely new remote communication channel and protocol compared to VS2010.

You can use VS2010 client on another machine for remote debugging. Alternatively, you can use VS2010 locally on Windows XP for debugging your application as an exe project (even if you built it in a newer version of VS): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0bxe8ytt%28v=vs.100%29.aspx, and in case of C++ you can use VC++ 2010 Express that is freely available: http://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#DownloadFamilies_4.

Thanks! Maria Ghiondea Visual Studio Debugger