Mono - Debug.Assert does not work

Question

I have this program here:

namespace TodoPlus {
using System.Diagnostics;

    public class LameProg {
        public LameProg() {}
        public static void Mai         


        

Answer 1

There's another trick: you can add "exit now" behavior through a TraceListener, because Debug.Assert failures trigger a call to Fail() in the trace listener.

You still need to -define:DEBUG (and TRACE?). I personally expect Assert() calls (in DEBUG builds) to stop my program, dump debug info and exit. So, this is how I do it:

In my code I install a custom trace listener to dump stack and add a call to Exit(). And viola! You have an industry standard response to Assert.Fail(). You could also, for example, print timestamps here, etc.

public class DumpStackTraceListener : TraceListener
{
  public override void Write( string message )
  {
     Console.Write( message );
  }

  public override void WriteLine(string message)
  {
     Console.WriteLine( message );
  }

  public override void Fail(string message)
  {
     Fail( message, String.Empty );
  }

  public override void Fail(string message1, string message2)
  {
     if (null == message2)
        message2 = String.Empty;

     Console.WriteLine( "{0}: {1}", message1, message2 );
     Console.WriteLine( "Stack Trace:" );

     StackTrace trace = new StackTrace( true );
     foreach (StackFrame frame in trace.GetFrames())
     {
        MethodBase frameClass = frame.GetMethod();
        Console.WriteLine( "  {2}.{3} {0}:{1}", 
                           frame.GetFileName(),
                           frame.GetFileLineNumber(),
                           frameClass.DeclaringType,
                           frameClass.Name );
     }

#if DEBUG
     Console.WriteLine( "Exiting because Fail" );
     Environment.Exit( 1 );
#endif
  }
}

Combine with a call to:

#if DEBUG
   Debug.Listeners.Add( new DumpStackTraceListener() );
#endif

And you're good to go.