VS.NET 2003 and XP x64

When debugging an ASP.NET application using VS.NET 2003 on XP x64 I noticed that the w3wp.exe *32 process does not seem to end when selecting "Stop Debugging". I can observe the process continuing to run in Windows Task Manager.

To verify that the process is continuing to run the thread I initiated and then attempted to stop, I sent some output to the VS.NET "output" window using WriteLn. After I start and then stopping the debugger the w3wp.exe *32 process was still running, but output was no longer going to the output window in VS.NET. However, if I start the debugger again on the same project, I begin getting output for my new debug PLUS output from the original debug that I supposedly stopped--although, based on the progress information I put in the output, the original thread seems to have continued to run in the background even after I used "Stop Debugging".

This effect seems to be cumulative such that if I start/stop X number of debuggers, each thread seems to run in the background until completion. The only way I seem to be able to stop code that I am debugging from running is to end the w3wp.exe *32 process using Windows Task Manager.

dpollo

dpollo at 2007-9-9 >