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Update steps in debugging instruction of CLR #43557

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Update CLR debugging instruction steps.
huoyaoyuan Oct 17, 2020
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Use suggested BCL path
huoyaoyuan Oct 21, 2020
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Mention the usage cases of CORE_LIBRARIES.
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Expand Up @@ -19,10 +19,16 @@ Debugging CoreCLR on Windows
7. Set Command Arguments=`<managed app you wish to run>` (e.g. HelloWorld.dll)
8. Set Working Directory=`$(SolutionDir)\..\..\..\bin\coreclr\Windows_NT.$(Platform).$(Configuration)`
1. This points to the folder containing CoreCLR binaries.
9. Press F11 to start debugging at wmain in corerun (or set a breakpoint in source and press F5 to run to it)
9. Set Environment=`CORE_LIBRARIES=$(SolutionDir)\..\..\..\bin\pkg\<current tfm>\runtime\Windows_NT-$(Configuration)-$(Platform)`,
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where '\<current tfm\>' is the target framework of current branch, for example `netcoreapp3.1` `net5.0`.
1. This points to the folder containing core libraries except `System.Private.CoreLib`.
10. Right-click the INSTALL project and choose 'Build'
1. This will load necessary information from cmake to Visual Studio.
11. Press F11 to start debugging at wmain in corerun (or set a breakpoint in source and press F5 to run to it)
1. As an example, set a breakpoint for the EEStartup function in ceemain.cpp to break into CoreCLR startup.

Steps 1-8 only need to be done once, and then (9) can be repeated whenever you want to start debugging. The above can be done with Visual Studio 2013.
Steps 1-10 only need to be done once, and then (11) can be repeated whenever you want to start debugging. The above can be done with Visual Studio 2019 as writing.
Keeping with latest version of Visual Studio is recommended.

### Using SOS with windbg or cdb on Windows ###

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