SharePoint 2010 / Debug - Locating Active SharePoint Process (W3WP.exe)
Often times you may be looking at debugging SharePoint custom code and need to attach the debugger to a process. The process list may list several instances of W3WP.exe. To locate which instance you are particularly using, you can go to the command prompt and run "%systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list wps". The following cmdlet loops to allow me to quickly refresh the net services list, which is useful after an IIS reset. :loop cls %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd list wps pause goto loop