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How to step into Framework source code in MonoDevelop

While debugging a project in MonoDevelop how can I step into Mono Framework source code?

I'm running the vanilla MonoDevelop from openSUSE 11.3.

Solution

  • This is an old post, but I stumbled upon it looking for the answer today, so hopefully it will help someone else out. Just unchecking the "Do not step into framework code" doesn't work unless you have the source in the location the PDB/MDB files point to. On my box, it was looking for the source at "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.10".

    In order to find out specifically where it should go for you, generate and log out an exception that contains a stack trace involving the framework (new SqlConnection(null) for example) and it will show you the file location its looking for the source in. For example:

      at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read (System.Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) [0x00065] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.10/mcs/class/System/System.Net.Sockets/NetworkStream.cs:369 
  at Mono.Data.Tds.Protocol.TdsComm.Read (System.Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count) [0x00000] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.10/mcs/class/Mono.Data.Tds/Mono.Data.Tds.Protocol/TdsComm.cs:630 
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---