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The process running IIS in most cases is called w3wp.exe. We will look for it in the list of processes, normally it will be spawned under a “svchost.exe” process:

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Note

For .NET Core applications, the process name is usually “dotnet”

Once we’ve found the process, we will right click and select “Properties” to get a deeper look in its configuration.

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Ensuring the above environment variables are correctly configured, should spawn the Profiler component which actually does the coverage collection.

Identifying a Windows Service

Windows Services are diagnosed the same way as described before with IIS, except they are spawned by the services.exe process.

In the following example, Demo.exe is the service being monitored:

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Viewing DLLs currently in use by a process

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In this case, there are the SeaLights DLLs currently in use by IIS, like we saw in the previous step (red square).

There are additional binaries currently in use by the Coverage Collection service (orange).

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