[MonoDevelop] Bug bounty or a reward for teaching me to fish

[Scott Stephens]

If you can build MonoDevelop in MonoDevelop itself or Visual Studio,
debugging it is basically as easy as pressing "play".  The two guide pages
on the topic are quite out of date, but point in the right direction.  I
don't recall it being too hard to get it working the first time I did it
(it's not nearly as hard as mono, for instance).  There's also a stack
overflow answer that describes how to work with debugging addins, which is
beyond what I think you need to do, but might help shed some light on
what's going on.  My final bit of advice is that you may be better off
debugging MD through Visual Studio on Windows than with MD itself.  As
you've noticed, the debugger can be a bit buggy in MD.

Resources:
http://monodevelop.com/developers/building_monodevelop
http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Mac_Support/Building_MonoDevelop_on_OS_X
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9637994/how-can-i-debug-monodevelop-add-ins-with-monodevelop

May be helpful to you if $100 does not prove sufficient to entice a Boston
expert to provide a tutorial.

-- Scott



On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Matt Calder <mvcalder at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have found in the last month or so that debugging in MD is hit or miss
> (like the bad old days of two years ago). Specifically, about 50% of the
> time, I cannot inspect objects in the debugger. I reported:
>
> https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7740
>
> but the bug is still there. So I am going to take a different tack.
>
> I'll buy anyone lunch and pay you $100 if you'll show me how to run MD in
> a debugging environment so that I can isolate this bug to make a better bug
> report or better yet, fix it. In addition to a meal and some cash I'll show
> you the very cool application our company is building in MD (did I mention
> we are hiring?).
>
> I am located in the Boston area (Framingham to be precise) and would
> prefer to do this in person,
>
> Matt
>
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