Lightning Talk: Implementing Wasm Debugging with .net in vscode

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Implements .NET Wasm debugging in VS Code by translating Chrome DevTools Protocol messages into the runtime’s Soft Debugger Protocol via a CDP proxy, enabling breakpoints, locals and call stack inspection for browser (wasmi) and standalone (Wazi) runs. Browser mode uses runtime.evaluate plus injected debugger statements to signal the proxy; Wazi reuses a preopened socket and a single-threaded communication loop. Experimental Firefox support exists and a recent PR adds multi‑thread runtime adjustments; demos show breakpoints, variable views and resume working end‑to‑end.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:55Why had we decided to use Chrome DevTools Protocol?
3. 5:48Multithreaded environment
4. 6:53Why it was fast to implement?
5. 7:30What was the challenges?
6. 8:36Debugging the C# app on VsCode
7. 9:03VsCode Configuration for debugging on Wasm and on Wasi

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