Command line based debugger for C# running on .NET 6

[awa5114]

Crossposting from SE

I'm on a (possibly futile) quest to find a command line based debugger for C# applications running on the .NET 6 framework. Something similar to jdb for java or pdb for python. I'm on a windows machine. Here are the meagre resources I have found:

• debugging c# in the command line
• MDbg
• DebugExe flag for devenv

The most promising by far would have been MDbg, but this looks very much outdated. The page on the NuGet repository shows no version compatible with .NET 6.

I also made a post on reddit but this unfortunately did not generate much discussion or answers.

Being able to hop into the debugger from the command line is a common feature among several languages, so I feel like it should exist for C#, however convoluted the process may be.

Is there any way to do this in C#?

[CyrusNajmabadi]

@awa5114 This is the repo for the C# language design. I recommend asking these sorts of questions in Discord or StackOverflow, etc. Thanks!

[HaloFour]

At best this might be a question for the runtime as to what tooling they support for debugging. The C# language doesn't know about debugging and the compiler emits debug symbols but doesn't get involved in the tools expected to consume it.

[awa5114]

Fair enough, I'll ask it there then...