Visual D and 'Find all references' broke

[Pie? via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 22:21:04 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 06.06.2016 00:25, Pie? wrote:
>> On Sunday, 5 June 2016 at 22:19:17 UTC, Pie? wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 5 June 2016 at 15:36:15 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> How difficult is it to setup an maintain? Can I open the 
>>> project in
>>> Visual Studio, make a change, compile and restart a VS test 
>>> project
>>> and check the changes? Or have you already setup everything 
>>> to play nice?
>>
>> What I mean is, am I going to have to do a lot of work to make 
>> it work
>> on my system or can I just dive in and make changes and it 
>> work ;) (I'm
>> lazy/don't have a lot of time)
>
> Unfortunately it's not super-easy, but if you only want to work 
> on the semantic engine, it might be not too complicated as you 
> don't have to build Visual D itself:
>
> - make a clone of the Visual D repository
> - make sure you also update D_Parser as a submodule in 
> vdc/abothe/Parser
> - load solution vdc/abothe/VDserver.sln
> - make sure there is no other process DParserCOMServer.exe 
> running, e.g. by closing all Visual Studio processes that have 
> D files loaded
> - build and run DParserCOMServer
> - set a breakpoint in GetReferences() in 
> vdc\abothe\comserver\VDServer.cs
> - start another instance of VS, it should attach to your 
> DParserCOMServer process and call GetReferences() if you issue 
> "Find all References"
> - you should be able to step through the code and fix all bugs 
> ;-)
>
> Good luck!

Thanks, I'll give work on getting it setup in the near future. 
can I accomplish the following in the semantic engine?

1. search and replace
2. Debug helpers: e.g., .net's ToString() and debugger qualifiers 
like ,ac(re-evaluates expression each time), etc...
3. mixin debugging helpers. (e.g., show the mixin expression to 
the user and possibly the line that is failing).