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.NET Forum / .NET Framework / New Users / July 2006debug custom assemblies
Hi, My application provides a feature to load custom assemblies. The application is build in release mode (/optimize). This is .NET 2.0. As a user wants to debug his custom assembly be e.g. forcing a debugger break ("Debugger.Break()"), he experiences that he can not inspect the value of the public properties of any class, since they are optimized away: "Cannot evaluate expression because the code of the current method is optimized." This is true even as the compiled assembly is built in debug mode using "/optimize-". I found something in docs, saying that the /optimize settings of the calling assembly - which is my app built in release mode - take precedence. What can be done to make the custom assembly fully debuggable? Thanks in advance. Dierk Droth Not sure, but have you considered the simple solution: Give developers of the custom assemblies a "debug" (/optimize-) version of your program to debug against? You don't have to give them the symbol (pdb) files for this to work... > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Dierk Droth Thanks for your reply. Yes, I'm aware of this option. However this is quite cumersome, since a) I had to provide a debug version ;-) b) the user had to restart the app using this debug version. Note: my app provides .NET scripting, so the user can edit, compile and run within the app. But then had to start to debug. I also considered providing a GetXXX() method for any XXX property, since the optimizer probably won't optimize these methods away (have not yet tested though). However, clumpsy as well ... Any other ideas? Thanks Dierk Droth > Not sure, but have you considered the simple solution: Give developers of > the custom assemblies a "debug" (/optimize-) version of your program to debug [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > > > Dierk Droth
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