Cannot load symbols or hit breakpoints on remote machine. Help!

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From: John Garland (avidgator_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/19/04

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    I'm trying to debug an ActiveX control (ATL71) running within a third-party
    client application on a particular machine that I "do not own." Not to get
    into the gory details, but assume I cannot install a development environment
    on the machine, and likewise, I cannot install the client application on my
    development machine. I figured Remote Debug (msvcmon) would be a perfect
    solution here, and I have used it without fail in the past with client apps
    that I had developed myself, but this appears to be a new case.

    For the record, I am using Visual Studio .Net 2003 and seleting the TCP/IP
    option in the Remote Debug connection type, and running the Remote Debug
    (msvcmon) app from the same suite on the client machine, with TCP/IP
    selected and the anyuser option.

    I can get the remote application to launch from within the debugger, and I
    can watch the symbols being loaded for all of the OS/API dlls (my OS symbols
    reside in a symbol cache on my development machine.) However, when my
    ActiveX modules is loaded, it refuses to load the symbols. I have tried
    placing the symbols in the same path as the client app, in the same path as
    the ActiveX control, and/or in my symbol server (using symstore.exe) No
    luck. Obviously, breakpoints within the ActiveX control's code (at method
    entry points) are completely ignored.

    I have also tried launching the app manually on the remote machine and using
    Attach To Process to no avail...

    I have found a previous article where placing the source tree on the remote
    machine may help with symbol-loading, but it seems kind of heavy-handed.
    Also, it did not resolve the breakpoint issue for the person struggling with
    what seems to be a similar problem.

    Any insight would be appreciated. I am happy to provide any additional
    information that may be necesary.

    --JMG

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