# Very handy thing on troubleshooting VS.NET Debugging

<datetime class="hidden">2004-07-05T00:00</datetime>
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This is one of the major pains with using Visual Studio .NET to work with ASP.NET - debugging almost never works on a new install and it can be a major pain to get it working. Noticed [this link](http://weblogs.asp.net/mkpark/articles/86872.aspx) on [Min's blog](http://weblogs.asp.net/mkpark) (he's also on the Debugger Team which helps :-)) - from [G. Andrew Duthie](http://weblogs.asp.net/gad/) - who I always wonder about, what is so bad about the G. bit that it needs eliminating? Oh, and [Eric Gunnerson](http://weblogs.asp.net/ericgu/archive/2004/03/09/87036.aspx) - who I just noticed posted it a bit earlier (and who writes some cracking stuff in his [regular MSDN column](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp09182003.asp))