Unable to properly debug duality when using a netstandard project

Summary

When you debug your plugin in VS it actually starts the Launcher.exe since the library itself is not runnable. This works fine for net portable projects but when doing this in a netstandard project things go wrong. Your game will run fine but you are unable to stop execution or step through your code.

While this ‘bug’ is not strictly related to duality as I can reproduce this easily outside of duality it does affect duality. This issue is mostly for aggregating info together in the hope to find a suitable workaround or fix.

Made a issue about this on the netstandard repo here

How to reproduce

• Download and open the attached test project.
• RebuildBuild the solution and start ClassLibrary1. This will actually start the exe generated by NetStandardDebugTest. Note that it will run properly.
• Now set a breakpoint and run it again. Note that the break point will not work.
• Now try to pause the execution. You will get a Unknown error 0x80004005

Workaround

• Do not use netstandard. This is currently a good workaround but eventually we want to switch to/support netstandard at which point this issue will become a blocker.

Attachments

• NetStandardDebugTest.zip

[Barsonax]

Will check this branch this weekend 👍

[Barsonax]

Seems this is finally getting fixed in VS16.0 (so 2019)