Monodevelop: Debug a process that I didn't launch myself

Question

I'm writing a .dll using Monodevelop on Linux that is run by an application, and I have no control over how or when my code is called, but I would like to debug that DLL.

How can I make Monodevelop's debugger attach to that DLL when a chosen method is run in the DLL ?

Alternatively, I thought about starting the debugger from the code itself (i.e. "from now on, please debug me").

The DLL I'm writing contains a xbuild task that throws and obscure exception when run using xbuild (but the code runs fine if I call it from main), so if there's any way to debug custom xbuild tasks, I'm interested in that too.

Answer 1

• Open your library project options
• On left side go to Build->Output
• Output path: set to path where external application will load your dll
• On left side go to Run->Custom Commands
• In dropdown box with text (Select a project operation) change to "Execute"
• In Command textbox set to external executable that loads your dll

Now you can right click on your library project in SoltuionPad and set "Set As Startup Project"