Debugger exits while stepping through code

[mmiller-d8]

Type: Bug

Almost every single time I try to step through code in a Maui shell app, the debugger just goes away. I hit step-over and the highlighted line just goes away and the app stops responding to input.

It can be on completely innocuous lines of code. There is no crash, no error message, nothing to indicate that anything is wrong. It just stops. Often it is after just one or two lines of code.

It's as if the debugger goes off waiting for the line of code to execute and never comes back. Kind of like if you have an async method and you needed to use ConfigureAwait(false) but didn't. Only this doesn't have to have an async method to happen.

I have not seen this happen in ASP.Net, just Maui. I also want to say that this is just since the last update. It worked fine before that.

EDIT: By "Last Update," I mean that I updated to .net 8.0.201 after I updated the community toolkit to find that it forced a .net 8 upgrade. Very bad form, by the way. I also had to update the workloads, so it isn't completely clear for me which thing broke it.

Extension version: 0.10.61 VS Code version: Code 1.88.1 (e170252f762678dec6ca2cc69aba1570769a5d39, 2024-04-10T17:43:08.196Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 23.4.0 Modes:

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| VS Bug 2049457

[sumowesley]

I don't know if this helps, but we upgraded our M1 Macbook Air system to .NET 8.0.204 yesterday. Since then, it would start a Maui app but the debug controls would disappear and we never hit a breakpoint. Reverting to .NET 8.0.104 has brought back the debugger controls and the breakpoints work.

VS Code: 1.88.1 .NET MAUI extension: 0.11.16 macOS: Sonoma 14/4/1 Chip: Apple M1

[mauroa]

Hi @sumowesley. Does this happen with a specific MAUI app or with any MAUI app, including a new one?

We've introduced a new debug engine for MAUI apps on latest pre-release versions of .NET MAUI and C#, that is supported from .NET SDK 8.0.200, which is the same debug engine used by non-MAUI apps and also by Windows apps. You should have a better and improved debug experience with the versions you mentioned, not a worse one.

If you can update .NET 8 again (to a version > 8.0.200), ensuring to have new versions (pre-release) of .NET MAUI and C#, can you confirm if you see differences between these 2 scenarios?

1 - Go to the VS Code Settings, in the ‘User’ tab go to ‘Extensions > .NET MAUI’ and uncheck the "Use VSDbg" option

2 - Go to the VS Code Settings, in the ‘User’ tab go to ‘Extensions > .NET MAUI’ and check the "Use VSDbg" option

The checkbox checked means you are using the new debugger, whereas unchecked means you are using the old one. It would be good to know if you notice differences and if you have issues with one engine but not with the other.

Thank for your help.

[sumowesley]

Hi @mauroa,

When we tried it last week, the debugger didn't work on a brand new Maui project or our main development here.

I've just swapped .net directories to revert to 8.0.204.

Dotnet:

• v8.0.204

Extensions:

• .NET MAUI v0.11.16
• C# dev kit v1.5.14
• C# v2.26.13

The new MAUI project from last week works with VSDbg. However, our larger project does not work with VSDbg; it does work when I disable VSDbg from the extension settings.

Let me know if you need any more.

[mmiller-d8]

@mauroa

I checked mine, and it was already checked. I unchecked it and was able to step through code as I could before. When I checked it again, I was able to step through a lot more lines of code (a dozen or more) before it showed the same behavior - the debugger function stopping and the app not responding to input.

[github-actions[bot]]

@mauroa, the 'needs-more-info' label has been removed upon receiving further response from the original bug filer.

[mauroa]

@sumowesley @mmiller-d8 any chance you can privately share your projects? That would help identifying what could be making the debugger to fail at some point. Thanks

[sumowesley]

@mauroa, I've added you to the relevant repository. The MAUI project is MossUI.

[mmiller-d8]

If you don't mind, I'd like to wait to see if you can reproduce it with the one @sumowesley provided. Mine isn't quite in a state where you can run it at the moment. Not without deploying the API locally. If you can't repro it with his, I'll deploy my API to azure and give you a branch that's pointed at it.

[github-actions[bot]]

@mauroa, the 'needs-more-info' label has been removed upon receiving further response from the original bug filer.