Debugging the content pipeline

re: Debugging the content pipeline

johnnylightbulb — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:01:23 GMT

I havn't tried this yet, but will the standard attach-to-process debbuger also work in this case? (If we attach to devenv.exe?)

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mikeschuld — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:35:54 GMT

I get a "No registered JIT debugger was specified." error. Did I miss something in the setup somewhere?

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ShawnHargreaves — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:17:16 GMT

Interesting - I though the CLR debugger was included with .NET, but I guess it must not be.

Looks like you can download it from here though: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7zxbks7z(vs.80).aspx

re: Debugging the content pipeline

dubbadee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:09:43 GMT

This doesn't appear to work with C# Express and the Game Studio. I'm trying to make some modifications to the shader code used in the XNA Animation Component Library at http://www.codeplex.com/animationcomponents. I've added the line

System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();

to the Process() function of PaletteEffectContent.cs, which is part of the custom importer dll. When I rebuild my project which is set to reference that dll, it just builds as normal. Is that expected behavior?

Thanks!

Derek Hauffe

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dubbadee — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:13:28 GMT

I've figured out what I was doing wrong. Thanks for this tip, Shawn!

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DarylJReed@hotmail.com — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:03:28 GMT

This also does not work for me. I've done a clean build, removed then added the content file again, everything I could think of. My debugger line is not getting hit...

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DarylJReed@hotmail.com — Fri, 11 May 2007 02:19:55 GMT

Just to be complete, the answer was that I am running on Vista, and had elevated the priviledges of VC# Express (run as administrator). If you do this, the JIT Debugger will not even attempt to attach to the process.

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duncanf — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:14:51 GMT

I can't get the debugger to attach using Launch(), it just builds as normal and throws an exception during and outputs that exception in the error list. Am I missing something? Also, I'm trying to use a content processor to calculate normals and write them back into the data stream provided... is this allowed/sensible? This content pipeline stuff seems obscenely fiddly just to do something really simple like get access to mesh data and write out new normals...

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jbsosch — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:32:09 GMT

it does not work for me, with GS3.0 and VS2008

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locus — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:20:02 GMT

does not work for express editions...

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Zakus — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:29:33 GMT

GS 3.1 VS2008 pro

work perfectly

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Chris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:56:31 GMT

GS 3.1 VS2008 works, but Visual Studio always stops responding afterwards and I have to kill the process and restart.