How to: Debug COM Servers

Debugging COM server applications poses a unique set of problems that are not always easy to solve.

If you do not have or do not want to use debugging information for your container application, starting to debug the server application is a three-step process.

To debug a server application without container information

  1. Start debugging the server as a normal application.

  2. Set breakpoints as desired.

  3. Start the container application.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Debug COM Clients and Servers Using RPC Debugging

Concepts

COM Server and Container Debugging

Other Resources

COM and ActiveX Debugging

Debugging in Visual Studio