Debugging Functions

[Carson (Carson Ripple)]

I’m starting to play with functions in 10.2.600. Is there a way to debug them in Visual Studio? I created a function, but I don’t see any source files on the server.

[Aaron_Moreng]

In the ICE Tools guide there is a section on debugging function source code

page 724

[Carson (Carson Ripple)]

Read the manual…

[Aaron_Moreng]

haha well, often only as a last resort

[jgiese.wci (Joshua Giese)]

To help me perpetually with troubleshooting I added a function library whose sole purpose is to write to the event viewer with more detailed information. A step past debugging. Not your standard Ice Exception source. The Task category corresponds to a UBAQ, Method Dir, Data Dir, Efx, or straight rest.

[Aaron_Moreng]

That’s slick

[bmanners (brett manners)]

I can get the source files open in visual studio but is there a way to execute the function and hit break points in visual studio? That would be super helpful when developing functions and trying to troubleshoot.

Brett

[bmanners (brett manners)]

OK, I figured it out. I used the same process as debugging a BPM.

Some good details from here

The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document

I am trying to debug a BPM using Visual Studio. I am able to attach to the w3wp.exe file on the Epicor server. When I go to set a breakpoint I receive the message: The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document. I have dragged all the files from the: \server\E10Web\E101SWTestApp\Server\BPM\Sources\BO\JobEntry.ChangeJobHeadProdTeamID\XXX folder into visual studio. The web.config on the server has been changed to: loadPdb=“true” Has anyone come ac…

Brett

[datadaddy (Scott Janisch)]

Is this available to share ?
thx