[Mono-list] How do you debug?

[Ivan Hawkes]

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On Friday 04 Jul 2003 3:29 pm, Marco Canini wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 13:24, J=F6rg Rosenkranz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a question to all Mono developers out there:
> > How do you debug your programs?
> >
> > I have not managed to get the Mono debugger working and
> > all statements on the list regarding this subject are saying:
> > It's broken in CVS.
> >
> > So I have to debug a fairly complex app using Console.WriteLine...
> > Is there another way to search for bugs in Mono under Linux?
> >
> > Maybe someone can point me in the right direction ;-)
>
> sorry, but at the moment console.writeline is the only way :((

Are there any indications of how long it will be before it is operational=20
again? I am kicking off porting a largish (~20,000 lines) project to run=20
under Mono and I'm going to need a bit of debugging support ;->

The project uses multiple assemblies, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML SqlClient, and =
all=20
sorts of other stuff so it will be fairly involved to get it all working. O=
n=20
the plus side, the whole thing compiled with only 2 lines of code changed=20
(can't write to EventLog) but it doesn't run my simple test app, instead=20
complaining about type conversions:

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Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source t=
ype=20
to destination type
in <0x0007a> 00 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader:GetInt32 (int)
in <0x00189> 00 Interesource.Publish.Client.ContentList:.ctor=20
(System.Data.IDataReader,bool)
in <0x00012> 00 Interesource.Publish.Client.ContentList:.ctor=20
(System.Data.IDataReader)
in <0x000a2> 00 Interesource.Publish.Client.ContentProvider:ListContentItem=
s=20
(Interesource.Publish.Entities.ContentTypeKey)
in <0x0009e> 00 simpletest.SimpleTest:Main (string[])

Now, this code works on both Framework 1.0 and 1.1, so I'm guessing there i=
s a=20
little work needed on the type casting for Mono. Without a debugger it's=20
going to be a nightmare trying to get it all working, so I'm hoping that=20
debugger will be available again soon.
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