Debugging private NuGet packages?

Question

I\'ve published some private/internal libraries as NuGet packages, using the symbols option. The packages and symbols are hosted on an internal network share. How can I ste

Answer 1

I found that it doesn't work at all. NuGet package references are closed and cannot be used in the debugger. What I did instead was deleting the assembly reference from the project and instead added a reference to a Debug build of the DLL directly by path.

Then to make the debugger halt somewhere in that code, I inserted the call System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break(); in that code. When running, the debugger will halt at that line, which is basically a code-defined breakpoint. This will open the correct source file and jump to that line automatically.

Open the library project in a second VS instance and move around the Break calls as necessary and rebuild the library. When done, remove those calls from the library code and restore the original reference (may need to reinstall the NuGet package).