Using Visual Studio to debug a Mono process running on Linux

Miguel de Icaza's web log - Using Visual Studio to Debug Mono

“The following screenshots shows Visual Studio debugging a remote Mono process running on a Linux box.

Breakpoints, current line, and stack traces.

The setup works like this: you run a debugging server on Linux. On Windows you install a Visual Studio extension that provides a Debugging Engine and the configuration tools to start your application.

Then you start your application from Visual Studio (Tools/Launch with Mono) which will send the binaries and debug information over to Linux and execute it.

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Is it just me or does this seem magical? Man, that’s just officially pretty cool…

Interesting how cross machine/process/etc debugging has improved in the last few years. Like the breakpoint, trace, debugging of SilverLight 2 apps running on a Mac and on my Zune and XBox360, etc.

(via tweet from Jon Galloway)