Unity3d VSCode Tips and Tricks with Unity Debugger, Debug Console, Watcher, Call Stack, Breakpoints

Unity3d VSCode Debugger for Unity is super powerful and can incredibly help you when working with your game and in times when you are having a hard time in finding a bug.

In this video I walk you through some of the main features available in VSCode with Unity3d as far as debugging is concern, we dive into how to use the Watcher to set few expressions, how to set debug breakpoints, how to set expressions on breakpoints, and lastly the debug terminal.

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[youngfella]

How do you print a log message on VSCode debug console? I tried Console.WriteLine but find the log message nowhere.

[oleksiiserheiev]

Hey,
How about ios player? Unfortunately, I cannot make it work :(

[ViniTheCrazzy]

well i can't find all those buttons to debug configurations either unity and visual code itself... i almost just work with javascript and stuff around it, but unity is powerfull and i not find a way to open stuff with visual studios or add debug to visual code i totally lost here

[luoyimin]

there are 2 things really annoying: 1. can't wait too long when hitting a breakpoint, and can't find any documentation on how to set timeout 2. auto jump out when hit an exception