System.Diagnostics.SymbolStore - any examples?

[Merrion]

I'm looking for examples on this but the MSDN help is very sparse.
Anybody used it?

 

[Volte]

Doesn't look very in-depth, but you might get something out of this. Couldn't find anything other than that.

 

[Merrion]

This is a start...I'm looking to be able to query the value of variables remotely. I got a very limited version of this idea working in VB6 but VB.Net seems to offer much better capabilities....if only some of it were documented ;-)

 

[Derek Stone]

I'm looking to be able to query the value of variables remotely.

Forgive me, but wouldn't remoting be more appropriate for a dsitributed application? Or are you referring to debugging one process from another? And would the debugger run on local or remote processes? Or both?

 

[Merrion]

System.Diagnostics.SymbolStore , System.Diagnostics.ISymbolReader and System.Runtime.Remoting hold out the tantalising possibility of writing a VS.IDE add-in that allows you to query variables' values from an executable running on a different machine. I shall try and knock together a proof-of-concept add-in if any free time arisies next month.

I have signed up at the Visual Studio Industry Partners site to download the SDKs and see if that helps...I'll let you know how this goes.

 

[Derek Stone]

Did you go for the free VSIP, the $3000 version or the I-need-to-remortgage $10,000 package?

 

[Merrion]

The free one featuring a host of lovely 404-page-not-founds. Once again the download is big enough to be visible from mars ....

 

[Derek Stone]

Add to that the quirks when logging into the news server...

But hey, at least you can use the SDKs. I can't until my copy of Visual Studio .NET 2003 comes in the mail.