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Debug Cake Frosting project in VSCode

I found an old question related to debugging a cake script in vscode.

How do I debug a "frosting" project?

I added this to .vscode/launch.json, but it runs the project without stopping at breakpoints:

{
  "name":        "cake",
  "type":        "coreclr",
  "request":     "launch",
  "cwd":         "${workspaceFolder}/build",
  "program":     "dotnet",
  "args":        [ "run" ],
  "stopAtEntry": false
}
Solution

  • One must run the frosting console programme (Build.dll).

    .vscode/tasks.json:

    {
  "label": "build-cake",
  "command": "dotnet",
  "type": "process",
  "args": [
    "build",
    "${workspaceFolder}/build/Build.csproj",
    "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
    "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
  ],
  "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
},

    .vscode/launch.json

    {
  "name": "cake",
  "type": "coreclr",
  "request": "launch",
  "preLaunchTask": "build-cake",
  "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build",
  "program": "${workspaceFolder}/build/bin/Debug/net6.0/Build.dll",
  "args": [],
  "console": "internalConsole",
  "stopAtEntry": false
}