Will I be able to develop a VB.NET script debugger using Roslyn?

Question

Roslyn sure looks intriguing.  It seems like what is being targeted with Roslyn is the ability to develop scripting support and hence the possiblity of having a scripting stepwise debugger.  I wouldn't assume that Break-Edit-Continue would be supported, although wouldn't that be awsome?

I see alot about Parse Tree exposure, and even stuff about immediate c# statement execution, but suprisingly not much on the idea of having a Script Stepwise Debugger.

Am I mis-understanding the intent or is this one of the abilities that Roslyn will provide?

Thanks,

Ken

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Ken

Answer 1

Hi Ken,

Script debugging is certainly something that we are thinking about, but given the scope of the Roslyn project, we need to make some tradeoffs, and this sort of functionality isn't in our immediate plans.

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