Thread names in Visual Studio and Mago

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 18/09/2019 19:55, Random D user wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 at 07:30:21 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 15/09/2019 20:11, Random D user wrote:
>>> I've been trying to set thread names for debugging, but it seems Mago
>>> just ignores all names.
>>
>> SetThreadDescription works for me (in VS2019).
>>
>> If you are using the visualdproj project, do not use "Mago" as the
>> debugger, the "Visual Studio" debugger work better and have D support
>> through a mago based expression evaluator extension.
> 
> Yes, I'm using VS2019.
> Interesting. I indeed have been using Mago (pretty old project files too).
> I did not know that "Mago" was the wrong debugger to use. I think it
> used to be so that it was the preferred and more feature complete (i.e.
> correct) debugger.

It was preferred before the debugger extension existed (2017), and the
latter only works for VS2012 and later (unlikely to be an issue now). I
guess I should add that info to the combo box somehow.

> 
> Thanks.
> And what it's worth, I think you're doing high value work with Visual D,
> much appreciated.
> 

Thanks.