Introduction to the VscDebugAdapter Module

The VscDebugAdapter module provides common functionality for implementing Visual Studio Adapter https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/.

Only subset of features is supported in Visual Studio Code IDE and in this module.

Module limitations:

breakpoint server side hitcount not supported
breakpoint logpoints
VSC event is not raised when breakpoint is changed, e.g. via another debugger client
conditional breakpoints, e.g. for particular thread
structured variables, e.g. classes/objects
for functional breakpoint the function must be provided with arguments types even a user variant does not exist
values for top-level local variables are not provided as thread vars for each thread
cannot provide program exit value

Visual Studio Code known issues:

evaluate "watch" request is not executed every step so watch value might be out of date
no module support in IDE
display own data type and custom data editor
exception info is asked but the value is not displayed
some capabilities are not implemented

vda_v0_1