About debugging in visual studio

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OS: Windows 10 22H2 19045.5487
unity: 6000.0.32f1
visual studio: Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 17.12.3

I try to debug into unity.logging module in unity editor through visual studio.
I have managered to add a breakpoint and entered the debug running mode by following steps:

  1. switch “Debug mode” in unity editor
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  2. add breakpoint in visual studio
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  3. “Debug”-> “attach unity debugger …”
  4. start in unity editor
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    then it works and the program stopped at the breakpoint, I can see the stack trace and variables, then I press F11(step in) try to see the code in unity.logging module.

But there is no related code just show a blank page.

I know in java we can download the source code package by definition of pom.xml, I am not sure if C# has the same mechanism for publishing the third-party library source code.

So, my questions are:

  1. Is it feasible to debug into the unity.logging module to check the logic?
  2. If it is feasible, Is there anything I haven’t done properly？
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Isn’t unity.logging package available as plain source, it should be located in \Library\packagecache or something

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Stepping back, what’s going wrong with logging in the first place?

This it? GitHub - needle-mirror/com.unity.logging: The Logging package provides interfaces for creating and processing runtime events and logging output. 📦 [Mirrored from UPM, not affiliated with Unity Technologies.]

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when I debugged the unity.logging, just like the following:

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I pressed F11(step in), the call stack(see in the bottom right) showed two frames
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the code page showed “Frame not in module” when I click “View disassembly”
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the page showed “no disassembly available”

The forgoing is what happened when I tried to debug unity.logging.

Another question is: when I tried to debug unity core module, I found I cannot step in at all:

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when I set breakpoint at GameObject.Find and pressed F11(step in) when the program stopped at the line, it just stepped over the line and I cannot set breakpoint at the position inside the GameObject.Find
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I am not sure if unity‘s debugging is as flexible as java which is easy to jump into jdk source code to troubleshoot the problems

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From my experience it fails when

  1. explicitly restricted by Unity to protect their source, esp when bridging the C# → C++ backend
  2. some source generated scenarios

#1 seems more likely here unless there’s some other issue going on