ur doing it wrong...(debugging portlets in .NET that is)

Wow, can't believe how dumb i've been. Just now realized that you can tell Visual Studio to use the locall IIS web server instead of the Visual Studio Development Server. (Just right click on the project, properties, click on the web tab, and click "Use Local IIS web server". This allows you to debug portlets without having to attach to the asp.net process. Awesome.

update: looks like you don't get the same configuration choice in the Website project type, only Web Application projects...