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SSH Debugger for Monodevelop & Xamarin Studio

Deploy, execute and debug your .NET apps running on a remote computer, directly from Monodevelop & Xamarin Studio. Includes a full XTerm console, on the Linux version. Standard text window on Win & Mac.

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Easy to run the SSH Debugger from menu "Run" or with shortcut alt tag

Uses:

  • Develop .NET apps for embedded devices and small computers such as the Raspberry Pi.
  • Deploy and debug apps running in a datacentre, docker container or virtual machine.

Features:

  • Requires no port forwarding, or special firewall rules. Just ssh access to the host.
  • Built-in XTerm console to support MonoCurses, Console.Output() & Console.Input().
  • Simple pre-debug scripting, to copy your build files to the remote host.
  • Build scripts for different devices, and store them in your project.
  • Secure communication. Password, or key-pair security.

Steps for use:

  1. Make sure your remote computer has mono installed, and is accessible from ssh.
  2. Add the SSH Debugger template from this add-in to your project, and change the host address.
  3. Add any dependency files to the script (dll's, data etc) for copying (scp or rsync).
  4. Run -> Run With -> SSH Debugger

See demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2sZ56q5C8A

Dependencies:

Windows & Mac: none

Linux requires Gnome VTE terminal libs for gtk

  • libgnome2.0-cil-dev
  • libvte-dev

Suggested future improvements:

  • Improve Xterm Terminal, flesh out the UI, copy, paste, go fully managed to remove Gnome VTE dependency?
  • Automate template generation, to fill in known dependencies.
  • Default to rsync where available, or scp only files that have changed.
  • C# pre-debug scripting.
  • Option to Detach & Reattach debugger? Reconnect if connection lost?
  • Wizard to prepare a host, test for stability, setup password-less login using private keys.
  • Add more customisation to script (e.g SOCKS support, default Xterm settings).
  • Windows host support

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