Visual-studio – set the process title for IIS6’s w3wp.exe

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In Visual Studio's "Attach to Process" dialog I can see a Title column for each of the processes available. Is there any way for me to set the title for a specific w3wp.exe process to reflect the application pool it's hosting?

PS – I'm aware of iisapp.vbs and the way it enables me to identify which w3wp.exe belongs to which application pool. I'm aiming for a more user-friendly solution here 🙂

PPS – Currently running IIS6.

Best Answer

Assuming you are debugging on non production servers, the easiest thing to do is to set the identities of each w3wp process to different accounts. I cannot find anything in IIS admin to set the title. Even when the debugger is running I cannot set the title like I can in threads. Hope this helps.