使用Visual Studio 2013远程调试在Linux上运行的C＃mono应用程序的最佳方法

Question

I am considering developing several console/service type apps for Linux using Mono C#.

My preferred development environment would be Windows with Visual Studio 2013.

Are there any solutions for remote debugging a Mono C# console process running on Linux with Visual Studio 2013?

In an ideal solution a simple F5 would deploy build output to the remote linux host, start the app on the host and then attach a debugger so that I can locally use all the standard debugging capabilities of Visual Studio 2013 (break points, stacktrace, watch window, etc...)

Is this even possible at present? This add-in here ( http://www.giesswein-apps.at/mono ) seems like a nice solution but it looks fairly new and I can't tell if it's only for RaspberryPi.

I understand Xamarin provides solutions to cross platform mobile development but do they have any solutions that might make C# Linux development easier?

Answer 1

The MonoDebugger add-in you linked definitely works on the PC as well, so it's not limited to the RaspberryPi. I have tried it, but as you said it's still fairly new and I found some bugs eg while stepping through a while-loop .

Debugging a remote Mono process should also be possible with MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio, but it's apparently not something you can do out of the box: http://tirania.org/blog//archive/2013/Oct.html