microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cpptools
Feature Request: Remote Debugging for cppvsdbg
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Description
I debug my applications on a Remote Test PC because I have additional hardware attached to that PC that I can't attach to my Development PC. I currently use Visual Studio to do that. I take a copy of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x86" and run "..\Remote Debugger\x86\msvsmon.exe" on my Test PC. Then I attach to my application using VS->"Transport"->"Remote (no authentication)". No authentication connection is OK for me because I'm on a private network.
I would like to be able to do something similar with vscode so that my whole development environment is on vscode using the cpptools extension.
My application is built with an internal build environment and I can only use msvc as the compiler, so I can't switch to "cppdbg"
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the cpptools extension's cppvsdbg integration and the described Visual Studio msvsmon.exe workflow. Confirm whether remote, no-authentication attachment to an MSVC application is supported; done means a VS Code session can connect to the remote Test PC and debug the application.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, vscode
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100