How to debug DXCore plug-ins under Visual Studio 2010 SP1
Visual Studio Service Pack 1 introduced an issue that prevents breakpoints to be hit while debugging DXCore plug-ins. When you hit F5 to run the plug-in project, Visual Studio builds it and starts the second instance of Visual Studio where you can debug the plug-in. However, the breakpoints inside plug-in project won’t be hit when you have SP1 installed. The corresponding bug report is registered on the MS Connect. It seems that the issue is in the TargetFramework version set for the project: if the version is 2.0 – the break point won’t be hit.
Therewith, if you try to execute the “Break All” command, the following error appears:
There are two workarounds for this issue:
- Manually attach to the debugging Visual Studio instance via the “Tools | Attach to Process…” menu item
- Change the TargetFramework version of the project to 4.0.
Let me know if you have issues with debugging of DXCore plug-ins under VS2010 SP1.
—– Products: all Versions: 10.2 and up VS IDEs: any Updated: Mar/18/2011 ID: T043
IMO changing the target framework to 4.0 does not work. I am debugging http://dxcorecommunityplugins.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/CodeIssueAnalysis/ (I am not an author, but there are some issues with this plugin)
After I start debugging, I am getting
System.ArgumentException crossed a native/managed boundary
Message=Cannot find the requested resource.
Source=Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonIDE
StackTrace:
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonIDE.ResourceLoader.FindResource[T](String resourceName, Int32 lcid, Func`2 fnConvert)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonIDE.ResourceLoader.GetBlob(String resourceName, Int32 lcid, Byte[]& bytes, Int32& count)
InnerException:
@ Karel Král
Thanks for joining in! I have downloaded the plug-in you mentioned, set the TargetFramework to the version 4.0 and I can debug it. I assume you have a different problem, something specific to your environment. I’ll let you know if I find any solution to the problem you noticed.
Has this been resolved?
I created a simple hello world pluggin and am still unable to debug/hit the breakpoint. In fact right now I have updated the plugin code and it is still running the old version of it? (how can i get it to use the most current code base)?
thx
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@dave
The issue is registered on MS Connect, and it is not fixed at the moment. Have you tried to work around the issue? See the workarounds section in the article.