Locals window now works! (For primitive types and pointers only.) Exceptions related to unrecognised (i.e. more complex) types should be caught and display as the local variable's value instead of causing VS to crash.
Autos window still causes instant VS crash.
Cosmos windows works.
Call Stack works (sort of...only ever displays current line)
Threads works (but there is only ever 1 thread so not very helpful)
Watch window is only capable of doing 1 watch result per break - step to next line to be able to run another - will look into why this is.
This is relatively stable but no to be considered complete. Currently supported:
1. Installing user/dev kit (as normal)
2. Creating C#/VB/F# projects (latter 2 untested)
3. Debugging a Cosmos project - see limitations list below.
Debugging limitations:
1. Breakpoints sometimes fail to be hit. Only known thing that may help is recompile everything.
2. Specific breakpoint failure case: If you try and place a breakpoint on or after a "while(true)" statement it is extremely unreliable.
Other limitations:
1. VMWare occasionally breaks. If you get "Internal error" messages, or if VS crashes (don't let Windows "fix" it) or if VMWare fails to load properly there is only one known & reliable solution: Re-run the VMWare installer and hit "Repair". No restart required. You won't lose your VMs or settings (AFAI can tell).
If it all breaks, feel free to rant at it ;)
You can now embed a single quote character in an X# literal string provided you escape this character by preceding it with a backslash. For example :
var .DebugWaitMsg = 'Waiting for \'debugger\' connection...'
X# asm code generator now uses back quotes to surround literal strings in generated asm code. Back quote characters in X# literal strings are properly escaped if they aren't already. Double quotes characters ub X# literal strings don't trigger a NASM compilation error anymore.
