How to debug cake project in vscode?

Question

Please provide cake project debugging steps with VS Code in Visual Studio 2015 not installed machine. I could not find any debugging steps in cake documentation.

Answer 1

1. Install Cake.CoreCLR NuGet package to your tools folder
2. Install Cake Extension for Visual Studio Code
3. Set up .NET Core debugger in Visual Studio Code. See http://aka.ms/vscclrdebugger for details
4. Open the directory containing your Cake files in Visual Studio Code

5. Create file .vscode/launch.json and add the following content (assuming your Cake file is build.cake)

    { "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "name": ".NET Core Launch (console)", "type": "coreclr", "request": "launch", "program": "${workspaceRoot}/tools/Cake.CoreCLR/Cake.dll", "args": [ "${workspaceRoot}/build.cake", "--debug", "--verbosity=diagnostic" ], "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}", "stopAtEntry": true, "externalConsole": false } ] }

6. Open your Cake file and add a breakpoint by hitting F9

7. Hit F5 to start debugging

This is taken from an excellent in-depth blog post by Martin Björkström on Cake's website http://cakebuild.net/blog/2016/09/debug-cake-vscode

Note VSCode debugging will only work using .NET Core, so any addin / reference must be available for .NET Core.

For debugging standard standard .NET Cake use Visual Studio, which is described in this blog post by Gary Ewan Park http://cakebuild.net/blog/2016/05/debug-cake-file