Mole ASP.NET Developers Please Read – Using Visualizers With ASP.NET

When using Visual Studio Visualizers with ASP.NET projects that utilize IIS as the web server, as opposed to the Visual Studio’s built in web server, you MUST give the account that the web site is running under, Read and Read & Execute permissions to the \Visualizers directory. 

This security requirement applies to all visualizers and not just Mole.

If you do not do this, you will get an exception when attempting to load the visualizer in a debugging session.   This is because the ASPNET account has very few permissions on your computer. Adding these permissons prevents this exception.

I have updated the Code Project article and Mole’s Home Page with this information.

Mole’s Home Page:
http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/mole-for-visual-studio/

Code Project Article:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/MoleForVisualStudio.aspx

Enjoy Mole!

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