Add-in for debugging support

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Joris Dobbelsteen - 13 Mar 2006 16:46 GMT

Dear,

I'm looking arround making a Visual Studio 2005 add-in.
However I don't seem to understand how to catch the debugger starting (which
should be simple, but I cannot catch the event). Also I like to catch the
debug output (DebugOutputString) from the debugged application.

How can this be done?

Thanks,

- Joris

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 13 Mar 2006 17:25 GMT

Hi Joris,

Trap the EnvDTE.Events.DTEEvents.ModeChanged event or the
EnvDTE.Events.DebuggerEvents. If you are using C#, read:

PRB: Visual Studio .NET events being disconnected from add-in.
http://www.mztools.com/articles/2005/MZ012.htm

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Joris Dobbelsteen - 13 Mar 2006 23:20 GMT

Dear Carlos,

Thanks for the information. This points me better into the good direction.
Hopefully Microsoft is ever going to write decend documentation for at least
the add-ins. Personally I liked the style of VS.NET 2003 much better than
VS.NET 2005 help. Unfortunally the add-in help mostly mentions "Microsoft
Internal Use" with any events.

I still have one buring question remaining:
Do you also have recommendations or guidelines how to retreive the debug
output (similar to the debug output window)?
I'm quite desperate for this functionality at this moment. There are no
other options for me to reliably use on the current code base for debugging
and tracing purposes.
I really like to have a integrated interface, as these are probably more
reliable than a 'home-brew' one.

Thanks,

- Joris

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 14 Mar 2006 16:09 GMT

Hi Joris,

> Hopefully Microsoft is ever going to write decend documentation for at
> least
> the add-ins. Personally I liked the style of VS.NET 2003 much better than
> VS.NET 2005 help.

The documentation is much better in VS 2005, IMHO, but anyway there is a
whole section on my web site with most, if not all, resources to learn about
add-ins. There is a free book for VS 2005 add-ins. Check it out.

Unfortunally the add-in help mostly mentions "Microsoft

> Internal Use" with any events.

You can use any event available.

> I still have one buring question remaining:
> Do you also have recommendations or guidelines how to retreive the debug
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> I really like to have a integrated interface, as these are probably more
> reliable than a 'home-brew' one.

I can´t help about this, but try posting here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=57&siteid=1

or contact with the MS blog authors that are listed on my section.

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MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio
You can code, design and document much faster:
http://www.mztools.com

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