VS Code Xamarin Debug

A simple VS Code debugger extension for the Xamarin. It's forked Mono Debug with with changes which allows you to debug Xamarin Android.

Help wanted

Xamarin debug is young extension, so it's a lot of things to do, and it's also important to undertand what should be done to improve extention.

We need your feedback. If you found a bug, something doens't work, or setup process isn't clear enought for your, or if you just have thoughts how to improve: do not hesitate to create an issue.

Contribution. You can implment any issue which is labled with Help wanted label.

Limitaion

Xamarin Debug supports only debuggin of Xamarin.Android projectes on MacOs or Ubuntu(probaly it should work on other linux distros, but nobody tested it). Xamarin Android debugging support only one attached device, please make sure that command adb devices shows only one device in list.

Debuggin Xamarin Android

In order to debug Xamarin.Android appliction you need to install it on device. Use msbuild target Intstall:

msbuild droid.csproj /p:Configuration=Debug /t:Install

After install setup debugger like in example:

{
  "name": "Debug android",
  "type": "xamarin",
  "request": "launch",
  "packageName": "com.xamarin.debugexample.x_a_debug"
}

Building extension

Building and using VS Code xamarin-debug requires a basic POSIX-like environment, a Bash-like shell, and an installed Mono framework.

To build the extension vsix, run:

npm install
make