Are there any stand-alone C#/.NET Debuggers?

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I'm wondering if there are any Visual Studio quality debuggers that can run outside of Visual Studio, instead of inside of the IDE? It would be great if it were Open Source so I could check out how it was done, but that's not a requirement, neither is that be product free.

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I'm wonder too whether here are any, but not the VS quality, it have an awful debugger, and that's the reason actually, that I am seeking for another. - Hi-Angel
See also stackoverflow.com/questions/163647/lightweight-net-debugger - riQQ

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WinDBG with SOS extension

Following has series of 6 videos, to get started on WinDBG http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/-NET-Debugging-Stater-Kit-for-the-Production-Environment

WinDBG is also useful for following scenarios, where VS debugger is not effective/available

  1. Hangs
  2. Crashes
  3. Deadlocks
  4. Production environment
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You should try mdbg.exe.

Also available in the Windows SDK directory on your machine, like C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools for VS2010.

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It's not quite "standalone", but SharpDevelop might have what you're looking for:

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You're not just looking for DbgCLR?

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You can also use GDB or the Mono hard-debugger with C#/.Net code.

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windbg

Its a bit of a pain for debugging managed code, but it can be done.