C#•15mo 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•15mo 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

phaseshift•15mo ago

Wdym "it doesn't work"?

StatharasOP•15mo ago

I get no command prompt

Omnissiah•15mo ago

just to be sure, which type of project is this?

arion•15mo ago

my guess is Framework winforms

StatharasOP•15mo ago

Standard 2.0 library

Omnissiah•15mo ago

so are you saying you don't see the cmd you are executing? are you running this how, a test project?

Accord•15mo ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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❔ Can't create Singleton terminal for dll output debugging