C#•2y ago

❔ Can't create Singleton terminal for dll output debugging

I need to create a CLI to output some debugging information from a DLL, but I am having some issues and I can't tell what's wrong, because on my current setup, I am unable to debug normally. (VSC on MacOS, building a .net standard 2.0 dll for an x86, 4.8.1 application running on VM Windows) I was expecting this to work, but it doesn't

cs 
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;

namespace Paradigm
{
    public class DebugConsole
    {
        private static DebugConsole instance = null;
        private static readonly object lockObject = new object();
        ProcessStartInfo psi;
        StreamWriter sw;
        StreamReader sr;
        private DebugConsole()
        {
            psi = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe")
            {
                RedirectStandardError = true,
                RedirectStandardInput = true,
                RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                UseShellExecute = false
            };
            Process p = Process.Start(psi);

            sw = p.StandardInput;
            sr = p.StandardOutput;

        }

        public static DebugConsole Instance
        {
            get
            {
                lock (lockObject)
                {

cs 
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;

namespace Paradigm
{
    public class DebugConsole
    {
        private static DebugConsole instance = null;
        private static readonly object lockObject = new object();
        ProcessStartInfo psi;
        StreamWriter sw;
        StreamReader sr;
        private DebugConsole()
        {
            psi = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe")
            {
                RedirectStandardError = true,
                RedirectStandardInput = true,
                RedirectStandardOutput = true,
                UseShellExecute = false
            };
            Process p = Process.Start(psi);

            sw = p.StandardInput;
            sr = p.StandardOutput;

        }

        public static DebugConsole Instance
        {
            get
            {
                lock (lockObject)
                {

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8 Replies

arion•2y ago

There are many logging frameworks you can use, you could use Serilog or you can use PInvoke to allocate a console via Kernel32.AllocConsole there could also be other ways of debugging into a vm, one could be to attach a debugger while within the vm