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Don't "Attach to Process" from a second Visual Studio window

Just don't. I just spent the last few hours debugging an extremely irritating issue with Visual Studio and attempting to attach to my local IIS. First, some context: I use Visual Studio as two windows to make the most use out of two monitors. I have the main VS window, the one with the menu bar and all the buttons, open full screen on the left monitor with a few code tabs in it. On the right/primary monitor, I have a code tab pool window, that I pulled out from the main VS window, set full screen with the solution explorer and a few other tool windows anchored to the side. Back to the story. Late yesterday afternoon, while debugging some things on a site running on my local IIS, I noticed that my Visual Studio seemed to lock up when I went to attach to the W3WP.exe process. It's happened once or twice before, so I force closed VS and tried it again. It worked the next time, so I continued my work and ignored the anomaly for the time being. towards the end of the day, it h