C#•3y ago

❔ Specify working directory when using dotnet watch

When I use

dotnet run --project ../../../../Platformer.csproj

dotnet run --project ../../../../Platformer.csproj

The project runs just fine. I want to be able to hot reload the project though (and since im using vscode because im on ubuntu it's a pain in the ass). I can't use rider because my pc isn't powerful enough.

When I use

dotnet watch --project ../../../../Platformer.csproj

dotnet watch --project ../../../../Platformer.csproj

The project starts up but then has an error because the project directory is set as the project's directlory (not the one I'm inputting the command from but the ../../../../ one).

Does anyone know how to fix this? Or maybe just another way to have hot reload in vs code?

FFypur When I use ``dotnet run --project ../../../../Platformer.csproj`` The project...

ZacharyPatten•5/30/23, 4:11 PM

is your code open source? if yes, feel free to link
if you are using Visual studio Code, then why not use the file and launch it from the debugging view in VSC?

FypurOP•5/30/23, 4:22 PM

it's not about my code, i know the problem has to do with the working directory so no need to link it

ZZacharyPatten 1. is your code open source? if yes, feel free to link 2. if you are using Visu...

FypurOP•5/30/23, 4:23 PM

if I do that I don't get to hot reload my project

FypurOP•5/30/23, 4:25 PM

launch.json uses the which doesn't support hot reloading

FypurOP•5/30/23, 4:26 PM

I can't run dotnet watch on my csproj because if i do the working directory is the directory of the csproj and not project/bin/x64/Debug/net6.0/

ZacharyPatten•5/30/23, 5:51 PM

yeah but I'm pretty sure you can get hot reload working while launching from the VSC debug screen too. I haven't actually done it myself, but did a quick google search and found this: https://kontext.tech/article/972/visual-studio-code-debug-aspnet-application-with-hot-reload. I'm a little too busy to try it myself at the moment, but maybe that will help

ZZacharyPatten yeah but I'm pretty sure you can get hot reload working while launching from the...

FypurOP•5/31/23, 2:22 PM

Thanks to what you sent I made it work. Now though my breakpoints don't work :/

FFypur Thanks to what you sent I made it work. Now though my breakpoints don't work :/

ZacharyPatten•5/31/23, 2:25 PM

Hard to tell what the issue is without seeing what you are seeing, but do you have ?

ZacharyPatten•5/31/23, 2:25 PM

in your settings

ZacharyPatten•5/31/23, 2:26 PM

screenshot from UI if you don't want to edit the JSON directly

FypurOP•5/31/23, 3:00 PM

Ah nevermind actually it didn't work, it's only because I hard coded the value of the working directory for a bit

FypurOP•5/31/23, 3:01 PM

anyways what you've sent me is actually really janky it starts up the game every 30 secondes or so somehow I gotta kill it with task manager

FypurOP•5/31/23, 3:01 PM

breakpoints work when I don't use dotnet watch

FypurOP•5/31/23, 3:02 PM

using the default vscode launch.json

FypurOP•5/31/23, 3:10 PM

as long as i set

Accord•6/1/23, 3:31 PM

Was this issue resolved? If so, run

/close

/close

otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.