Omnisharp-vscode: Using or license clrdbg outside of VSCode

[danwalmsley]

Hi,

Quick question, iv noticed a fairly well known company that is developing .net ide are using your clrdbg.exe.

I run an open source project AvalonStudio (https://github.com/VitalElement/AvalonStudio/) which is mainly for c/c++ but we have started to add c# and .net support. We had a look at clrdbg and notice it prints a message to say its not available for use outside vscode, xamarin studio or visual studio.

which is why we haven't used it.

We are interested if like the company that are using it, we could get permission to use it also (we are not a company or profitable organization).

I spoke to some of the omnisharp guys and they told me @gregg-miskelly might be able to help me?

Thanks in advance for any information

[DustinCampbell]

To be clear, the "omnisharp guys" was me. :smile: That said, while I work for Microsoft, I'm not on the debugger team, so I recommended that @danwalmsley touch base with you.

[gregg-miskelly]

@danwalmsley your question is a good one, but it is above my pay grade :). I will forward it along to others to see what can be done. However, lots of people are on vacation, so it may be a little while before they respond. But if no one gets back to you by ~January 6th, please ping me.

[andysterland]

hi there @danwalmsley, you’re correct that the terms of clrdbg don't allow use outside of VS, VS Code, and Xamarin Studio. I’m not familiar with Avalon Studio, so if you have some time for a call it would be great to understand more about the project and where you want to go with it. You can find time on my calendar at https://calendly.com/andster. Thanks!

[danwalmsley]

@andysterland Thanks, that will be great I will book that in :)

How will we communicate skype?

Avalon Studio is an open source IDE project I have been running for a couple of years. More info here, but I will be happy to tell you all about it and where I want to take the project,
https://github.com/VitalElement/AvalonStudio/

[DustinCampbell]

Did conversation already happen? Do we still need this issue or can it be closed?

[dasMulli]

Apparently, JetBrains Rider also hit the license issue and removed CoreCLR debugging: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2017/02/15/rider-eap-17-nuget-unit-testing-build-debugging/

[danwalmsley]

@DustinCampbell yes, but still awaiting to hear back.

In case the internal discussion is going on, it might be worth pointing out that
apples swift language they have https://github.com/apple/swift-lldb

open lldb debugger support. This is something that arguably should be part of c# community.

[vintzl]

@andysterland
More than 2 years later, can you provide us any news?