[MonoTouch] Do the makers of Monodevelop actually test the application?

[Nic Wise]

This was something to do with a "phantom device" and I think Sebastian
fixed it (not sure which release tho!) which sounds similar, tho I'm
not sure:

eg

http://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395

and especially this one:

http://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477

But by the sounds of it, you need to file a bug and see if it can be
repro'ed by the dev team - like any bug, if it can't be repro'ed, it
can't be fixed.


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:08, dermotos <me at dermotos.com> wrote:
> The main thing for me is the debugging. Trying to get the debugger to attach
> to my app on the device is very hit and miss. Its what slows me down the
> most.
> Generally it starts off with the debugger completely ignoring the fact my
> app launched on the device, and the device vibrating once to show its not
> connected to debugger.
> Usually I try:
>
> ReUpload to device
> Disconnect/Reconnect device
> Rebuild and reupload.
> Manually kill my app and try
> Delete app from device and reupload
> Reset device
> Restart Monodevelop.
> Restart computer.
>
> This evening was one of those evenings where I could only get it to work
> after doing ALL of the above.
> I finally got it connected after restarting computer, device and rebuilding
> and reconnecting all in one go, and then Monodevelop crashes out completely.
> After another 5 - 10 minutes I get it connected again, am debugging through
> my code, hit "step over" for the 10th to 15th time maybe during the
> debugging session, and it never makes it to the next line. So have to
> disconnect and go through all of the above again to try get back to that
> point in the code.
>
> 40 minutes later and i finally get to debug that line. You can imagine how
> annoying this might get.
>
> There are the other errors, UI bugs, random crashes, unhandled exceptions
> etc... but honestly if the debugging could just be fixed id be sane again.
> :-)
>
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