You can download Visual Studio here. We support Visual Studio 2022 (older versions still work with Flax but the latest .NET SDK 7 doesn't support them).
Flax requries the following components to be installed in order to support C# scripts debugging:
- C# and Visual Basic Roslyn Compilers
- C# and Visual Basic
- .NET 8.0 Runtime (already required by Flax Editor)
- .NET SDK (already required by Flax Editor)
For C++ scripts debugging platform-dependant toolset is required:
- Windows 10 SDK (or any other newer SDK)
- MSVC C++ 2015 v140 toolset (or any other newer toolset)
To debug script code it has to be attached to the actor in the scene. Simply drag and drop it into the selected actor properties area.
Double-click on a script item and wait for the IDE to show up.
Ensure to pick a proper solution configuration eg. Editor.Development and select platform Win64.
Click on a left side of the code editor to assign a breakpoint to the line. Red dot should be added as shown in the picture below.
Press Attach to Process under Debug menu in Visual Studio.
It will open an additional window where you can select a process to debug (eg. Flax Editor, cooked game, or game running on a DevKit). After you select the target process click Attach. You can search processes by name by using Filter process text field or use Select Window tool. In most cases, you want to select FlaxEditor.exe process that is running a project which you want to debug.
Visual Studio should enter a debugging mode and the bottom of the IDE will remain orange. This signifies Visual Studio is ready for debugging.
Go back to the Flax Editor and press the Play button to start a game. Then script OnUpdate() function will be called and assigned breakpoint hit.
Now you can use all Visual Studio debugging features to verify state of the variables and test your code.
For more information about debugging in Visual Studio, see the VS documentation.