[Backalaika-developers] Debugging with SharpDevelop

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<h1>Debugging with SharpDevelop</h1>
<p>Currently, debugging is not supported by Sharp Develop. Here we will
show three different approaches to debugging your code:</p>
<h2>1 - the minimalist approach</h2>
<p>If you really need to do some debugging, you can use cordbg.exe,
which is included in the .NET SDK, to debug your application.</p>
<p>When you get the message "This application has generated an
unhandled exception.", follow these steps:</p>
<ul>
  <li> Press <em>'cancel</em> on the above dialog. A new dialog will
pop up.</li>
  <li> Run <strong>cordbg.exe</strong> from your .NET Sdk \bin
directory,
with the process id listed on the new dialog. You should have a
commandline something like this: <strong>C:\Program
Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\Bin\cordbg.exe</strong> !a 0xfff27fc1
where <em>0xfff27fc1</em> is the process id.</li>
  <li> Press <strong>Retry</strong> on the dialog. This will cause
cordbg to emit debugging info.</li>
  <li> You can use the text highlighter on the console window to
highlight and copy the text in the console window.</li>
  <li> When you're done, type <strong>q</strong> at the console prompt.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you add the location of cordbg.exe to your path and then restart
Sharp Develop, you can skip steps 2 and 3. Clicking the cancel button
in the first dialog will fire up a cordbg console automatically. [ver
0.95]</p>
<h2>2 - How to Debug with a GUI</h2>
<p>At first I hated SD for not bringing along a debugger of its own,
but then I realised a good debugger ships with the SDK.</p>
<ul>
  <li> Run <strong>C:\Program
Files\Microsoft.NET\FrameworkSDK\GuiDebug\dbgclr.exe</strong></li>
  <li> Choose <em>Debug - Program</em> to Debug in the Menu.</li>
  <li> In the appearing dialog, enter the path to your .net program and
press OK.</li>
  <li> Run the program pressing the <em>play</em> button <em>&gt;</em>.</li>
  <li> Break the program using the <em>pause</em> button <em>||</em>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The sourcecode at its current position should appear. Now you can
right click on <em>Miscellaneous Files</em> and open source code
files. In there, you can add breakpoints, watches, etc. It's pretty
comfortable.</p>
<h2> 3 - How to Debug with a GUI (the easy way)</h2>
<ul>
  <li> Add a new Tool (<em>Tools-&gt;Options-&gt;Tools-&gt;External
Tools-&gt;Add</em>)</li>
  <li> Title it <em>Debugger</em> or something like that</li>
  <li> In <strong>Command</strong> search for <strong>DbgCLR.exe</strong>
(usually in <em>C:\Program
Files\Microsoft.NET\SDK\v1.1\GuiDebug\DbgCLR.exe</em>)</li>
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  <li> Hit the OK-Button</li>
</ul>
<p>Now you can start the debugger with a single click!</p>
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