How to debug VB.NET windows service without Visual Studio - vb.net

I have the source code of an windows service which is written in VB.NET
I came through various methods to debug this service using development environment (Visual Studio). But the challenge is, I need to deploy it in one of our servers as other application on that server need to access it. The server doesn't contain any development or debug tools. I am not allowed to install visual studio in it.
Is there any other way to debug the windows service on this server?
My intention is to understand the method call hierarchy, as this is a very complex code and I didn't write it. It has a very complex architecture and it is not possible to track the data flow only by looking at it.

If the only restriction is you can't install Visual Studio, I'd suggest you get the Remote Tools for VS 2012, which don't even need to be installed to the server, just a machine with a share accessible from the server. Then follow the instructions.

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I need to develop an application for my distributed computing class, with one central server and multiple graphical clients. I was thinking of trying WCF for this, since I am already familiar with making .NET standalone desktop applications using Windows Forms or WPF.
Since I have never worked with WCF before, I am trying to follow a tutorial posted on MSDN, which has defining a service contract as its first major step.* Part of this involves creating a WCF Service Library project, which is supposed to be available as a template under the language of my choice (I am going to use C# here). However, I do not see this project template listed as an option in the new project dialog, and looking for WCF in the search bar returns no results.
How can I make this project template available for use in Visual Studio 2017?
* It should probably be noted that the tutorial mentions that it is written with Visual Studio 2012 in mind. Has anything changed since then that I should be aware of as far as the tutorial is concerned?
Open the installer, choose Individual Components and scroll down to Development Activities. Check the WCF checkbox:
I ended up re-running the Visual Studio Installer to modify my current setup. WCF is not explicitly listed anywhere, but I figured it might have been included as part of the .NET Core or ASP.NET workloads (which were not marked for installation the first time around). After adding these workloads to my installation and restarting Visual Studio 2017, I can now see the WCF project templates listed under C#.

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A VB EXE is a client architecture which usually needs installing on each client machine using it. The code in the EXE could/would normally then connect to external shared, singular resources over a network (such as databases, reporting servers etc.) but the actual EXE itself would typically be duplicated upon each client computer.
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I'm actually done doing the small-scale application for our office, however, I really don't have any idea how to deploy this one. Can someone provide me any links on how to do this? This project will be deployed in one pc.
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If its a web based application, install your application on your web server and provide clients with the appropriate link.

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Use PowerShell. Stsadm is considered to be obsolete and is included in SharePoint 2010 only for backwards compatibility with SharePoint 2007. So, since you are new to SharePoint, pretend Stsadm doesn't even exist.
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NOTE: I've seen this (http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/354576/add-https-support-to-visual-studio-asp-net-development-server) but I was still hoping there was a workaround.
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this subject was covered here and it say's, you actually can't.
But you might take a look at this link, which might prove the contrary: (See link in comment, i'm not yet able to post more then 1 link per post ...doh)
Hope this helps.
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