Remote debugging an Azure App Service

App services running on Azure can be easily remotely debugged and I will try to it in here.

Publish the Application in Debug mode

Enable remote debugging on the portal

The feature will automatically turn off after 48 hours as a security policy.

This step may be skipped as Visual Studio will automatically turn the feature on when attaching it to Azure.

Connect from Visual Studio

Then:

As discussed, Visual Studio will automatically enable remote debugging:

Add breakpoint

Conclusions

Remote debugging on Azure is quite a powerful feature that might really come handy at hard times.