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Right now, debugging the code extensions seems to be impossible, unless I am missing something. This really needs to be improved somehow.

J.Ja
30 Apr 2010
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If you have the platform installed on your computer you can attach the Visual Studio debugger to the IIS process.
30 Apr 2010
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Good to know that! All the same, that needs to be improved so it is a smoother workflow. I've been using AP for a while now, and that was quite non-obvious to me.

J.Ja
30 Apr 2010
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Yes, it's not obvious and maybe not easily discoverable through the documentation.

And if you're working in more than one platform version at the same time, it's not reasonable to expect that you have different platform installations in your computer.

And besides the extension might not be runnable in a local machine for some reason or another, like for instance if it needs to be in a remote server to connect to a legacy system.

And it's not usual to find a visual studio installation in a development server.

30 Apr 2010
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Inside SS, call Visual studio and debug the extension code.

Merged from 'Debug an Extension!' (idea created on 2011-04-14 19:10:49 by Nuno Baptista), on 2011-04-20 09:43:08 by Rodrigo Castelo
14 Apr 2011
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We must be able to debug an extension without having to attach it to the server's process instance.

Merged from 'Simplify the extensions debug process' (idea created on 2011-07-19 10:01:16 by André Ramos), on 2015-12-01 12:29:12 by Goncalo Borrega
19 Jul 2011
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Merged this idea with 'Debug an Extension!' (created on 2011-04-14 19:10:49 by Nuno Baptista)
20 Apr 2011
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Merged this idea with 'Debug the extension in the Outsystems' (created on 04 Feb 2020 11:02:42 by Manish Pushpadh)
06 Feb 2020
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Hi Team,


I am facing an issue while debug the extensions in outsytems which has been used ,

So would request OS to facilitate with it where a developer can debug at any point of time.

By this life of a developer would become much easier.


Regards

Manish P



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Debug the extension in the Outsystems' (created on 04 Feb 2020 by Manish Pushpadh)
- merged to idea 'Better debugging for extensions' on 06 Feb 2020 11:23:25 by Nuno Reis
04 Feb 2020
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Though this would indeed be very nice, it's also extremely difficult, as Extensions aren't created in OutSystems tooling.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Debug the extension in the Outsystems' (created on 04 Feb 2020 by Manish Pushpadh)
- merged to idea 'Better debugging for extensions' on 06 Feb 2020 11:23:25 by Nuno Reis
04 Feb 2020
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Yes, this will be  a really nice to have feature.

As of now i usually try to debug extensions using console app.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Debug the extension in the Outsystems' (created on 04 Feb 2020 by Manish Pushpadh)
- merged to idea 'Better debugging for extensions' on 06 Feb 2020 11:23:25 by Nuno Reis
05 Feb 2020
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Hi,

Here is a great instruction video on how to use OutSystems Audit logging in extensions and how to add a console app to your extension for debugging purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6PL8CHEzd4&list=PLkXXB4zZ-CBzCf7RnVQKJK47qsjsNdYPf



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Debug the extension in the Outsystems' (created on 04 Feb 2020 by Manish Pushpadh)
- merged to idea 'Better debugging for extensions' on 06 Feb 2020 11:23:25 by Nuno Reis
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