Ports

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac

In the debugger architecture, a port:

• Is a container for a set of processes running on a server. For example, a port might represent a connection to a Windows CE-based device by a serial cable or to a networked non-DCOM machine. One special port, called the local port, contains all the processes running on the local machine.

• Can identify itself by name or identifier.

• Can enumerate all processes running on the port and launch and terminate these processes.

• Is represented by an IDebugPort2 interface, which is created by passing an IDebugPortRequest2 argument to AddPort.

  Visual Studio supplies a default port that handles all Windows-based processes, both native and managed. A custom port must be set up for connections with external devices that are not Windows-based. To supply such custom ports, you must also set up a custom port supplier.

See also

• Servers
• Processes
• Debugger concepts
• IDebugPort2
• IDebugPortRequest2
• AddPort