Debugging during development

In this section, you will learn how to debug problems at development time. You must use a code editor that has debugging tools, such as Visual Studio 2022 or Visual Studio Code. At the time of writing, you cannot use .NET Interactive Notebooks to debug code, but this is expected to be added in the future.

More Information: Some people find it tricky setting up the OmniSharp debugger for Visual Studio Code. I have included instructions for the most common issues, but if you still have trouble, try reading the information at the following link: https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vscode/blob/master/debugger.md.

Using the Visual Studio Code integrated terminal during debugging

By default, OmniSharp sets the console to use the internal console during debugging, which does not allow interactions like entering text from the ReadLine method.

To improve the experience, we can change a setting to use the integrated terminal instead...