{"id":80,"date":"2011-07-29T22:27:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T22:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benbarefield.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2011-08-02T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:53:24","slug":"answering-a-couple-scala-net-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benbarefield.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/answering-a-couple-scala-net-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering a Couple Scala.Net questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Wagner<\/a> recently asked me a couple of Scala.Net questions after reading my recent blog posts.<\/p>\n

What is the debugging story for Scala.Net?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A pdb file is required for debugging in Visual Studio, just like with C#. The pdb file contains all of the debugging symbols that Visual Studio uses to track the run of the program. A pdb file can be generated when running ilasm:<\/p>\n

ilasm \/PDB <MSIL file><\/p>\n

After running ilasm, open Visual Studio and create a new Blank Solution (found under Other Project Types \u2013> Visual Studio Solutions.) Then right click the Solution and click Add \u2013> Existing Project. Change the filter to show executable files and add the executable generated by ilasm. Now the executable can be run through Visual Studio in various ways; for example, right click the executable \u2013> Debug \u2013> Start new instance.<\/p>\n

Before running the executable, make sure that \u201cenable address level debugging\u201d is set by going to Debug \u2013> Options and Settings.<\/p>\n

A break point can be set in any of the Scala files associated with the executable by opening the file in Visual Studio (File \u2013> Open) and setting a break point as if it was any other .Net language file.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t need a using statement, does that mean that all the Scala code goes into the global namespace?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my Calling Scala from C#<\/a> post, I said:<\/p>\n

\u2026 [it] surprisingly doesn\u2019t require any extra using statements<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reason a using statement was not required was because I did not put the Scala code I wrote into a package. If I had, a using statement would have been needed for the package.<\/p>\n

For example, if my Scala code has been:<\/p>\n

\n
package<\/span> Speaker<\/pre>\n
class<\/span> ScalaSpeaker {<\/pre>\n
    def Speak() {<\/pre>\n
        println(\"Hello\"<\/span>);<\/pre>\n
    }\r\n    def Speak(name: String) {<\/pre>\n
        println(\"Hi, \"<\/span> + name + \", glad you could join us!\"<\/span>)<\/pre>\n
    }<\/pre>\n
}<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
Then my C# would need \u201cusing Speaker;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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