Created By: Scott Chamberlain
Loading this plugin in to Space Engineeers will allow mods to use the System.Diagnostics.Debugger class. It also changes the way mods are compiled so now it is possible to step through them with a debugger.
Tutorial Video: https://youtu.be/qO3kIz7uqFY
Forum Link: http://forum.keenswh.com/threads/plugin-mod-debugger.7372015/
To prevent problems when using this plugin, before unziping the release be sure to right click on zip file open the properties and "Unblock" it if windows has decided the zip file is a non-trusted file.
Extract the zip to a directory on your disk, be sure that the directory is writeable by the user that Space Engineers will be running as. Then when launching Space Engineeers pass the command line parameter:
-plugin %PluginPath%\ModDebugger.dll
Where %PluginPath% is the directory you put the file. So for example if you
had the file located at C:\Mod Debugger\ModDebugger.dll then you would launch
space engineers using the arguments
-plugin "C:\Mod Debugger\ModDebugger.dll"
Once loaded you will now be able to make calls to System.Diagnostics.Debugger from inside mods and scripts. Included is a ModDebugger.cs file which provides a wrapper class that you can safely with or without the plugin loaded. When the plugin is not loaded All the methods of ModDebugger do nothing and all return false, or a empty string.
From inside your mod at some point call ModDebugger.Launch() this will cause
Space Engineers to launch the Just-In-Time Debugger screen. From there you can
choose to launch a new instance of Visual Studio or attach to an existing one.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The debugger will be using files generated by the Space
Engineers compiler, breakpoints in your mod code's original files will not
work! You must put breakpoints in the temporary files the compiler generated
which will be located at %PluginPath%\TempFiles\ with random file names for
the files. These files will be deleted after Space Engineers closes.
When cloning this repository copy user.props.example and name it user.props and adjust the variables within to match your local enviorment.
This project uses features introduced in C# 6.0 and must be compiled in Visual Studio 2015 or newer.