Remote Debug desktop app visual studio 2015

Question

I used to develop and remote debug one device creating Windows Store Apps with VS 2013 for Windows.

Now I am using a Microsoft VS Community 2015 (v 14..) and I created a Windows Desktop App using WPF, but I cant remote debug anymore but only running with/out debug.

Please how can I remote debug a desktop app with VS2015?

I tried with this msdn tutorial but when I run my app it shows a message like this:

"error in trying to execute the project: Impossible to start debugging. The debugger is not able to connect to remote computer. Impossible to solve the specified computer name"

Have you tried [this link?](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8x6by8d2.aspx) — VisualBean, Sep 10 '15 at 11:19
Hsve you tried with an ip instead of a hostname? - seems like it cannot resolve the hostname — VisualBean, Sep 10 '15 at 12:35
now it says that MSVMON.exe is not running but actually I started the remote debugger. it is the same that I used for VS2013 — eeadev, Sep 10 '15 at 12:42
after installing the new remote tool for VS 2015, It seems to kind of work but it does not stop to breakpoints..do u know why? — eeadev, Sep 10 '15 at 13:09
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/89284/discussion-between-eeadev-and-visualbean). — eeadev, Sep 10 '15 at 13:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '15 at 14:54

"error in trying to execute the project: Impossible to start debugging. The debugger is not able to connect to remote computer. Impossible to solve the specified computer name"

Here's what went down in the chat;

First of Try using an IP address instead of a hostname.
@eeadev then installed a new version of the remote debugger which resulted in it working, but no breakpoints were hit.
I told @eeadev to move the contents of the debug folder to the remote server , because of the ties with the pdb file for debugging.
After @eeadev did the above, everything worked. happy days!

Remote Debug desktop app visual studio 2015

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Here's what went down in the chat;