How can I debug a Published web site

Hi All

How can I debug a Published website. I am using VS 2008. And My web Application works fine in my local environment, but when I published the application and moved to Production I am getting some errors. I am trying to do some IO operations, and I set full rights to ASP.Net user to the specified directory, same as my local machine. One major problem I am facing is my production box don't have VS 2008 installed. Only .Net 3.5 and VS 2005 available. How can debug my application.

It is not reccomended to debug on production. Try to integrate an error logging mechanism to catch the details.

Elmah will be a good choise- http://code.google.com/p/elmah/

Thanks Praveen, I will look into this.

Hi,

I am extending a bit on Praveen's reply, I would like to suggest you to go for Microsoft Enterprise Library's Logging Block, You can trap those errors and log them either locally on Server's log or store in text or xml or if SMTP settings are there you can even mail those errors with minute details.

So check out Microsoft Enterprise Library , it saves lot of time since you can apply such settings globally in web.config with minimum pain.

Thanks,

Vikram Pendse.

Microsoft MVP

http://pendsevikram.blogspot.com

Thanks Vikram. Let me checkout that one also.