[josteink]

> VS can debug processes on remote machines with only a small helper process running on that machine

You first please :)

I've tried doing that several times and always ended up giving up. If it's not firewalling, its UAC or cross domain trust issues, or DCOM configuration, or process permissions and probably 200 other things which has failed on me in the past.

It only works in the most trivial of configurations. Back in the real world I've only been able to use it once or twice, non-repeatably.

[plorkyeran]

I've never had it be particularly difficult. It does generally require a VPN since forwarding DCOM over ssh is challenging.