VB debug crash

NETMF & Gadgeteer
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I have been debugging a large VB program and having lots of debug issues and decided to try to find the cause. With the following not so long program, I can crash Visual Studio (2012 or 2013) every time by simply waiting for the stop, then using the curser to see the present value of I. Using the immediate window to find the value will also crash VB.

Local variables declaired inside the sub can be explored without issue.

Similar code in C# using Static instead of Private works just peachy.

This happens with the emulator, so this is not a GHI issue, and none of their dlls are loaded.

Option Explicit On
Option Strict On

Imports Microsoft.SPOT
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices

Namespace MFConsoleApplication1

    Public Module Module1
        Private I As Integer = 1

        Sub Main()

            Debug.Print(Resources.GetString(Resources.StringResources.String1))
            Stop
            Debug.Print(I.ToString)
        End Sub

    End Module

End Namespace

I would like to post this as a bug, but am not sure where. Perhaps GitHub - NETMF/netmf-interpreter: .NET Micro Framework Interpreter on GitHub?
Presumably the issue is in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
This occurs running
Microsoft.Spot.Native 4.3.1
mscorlib 4.3.1
Microsoft.Visualbasic 1.0.0.0 (v4.0.30319)

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I can confirm this behavior. I have experienced it from the first day I have started using NETMF. It is very very annoying.
The best place to report it would be GitHub - NETMF/netmf-interpreter: .NET Micro Framework Interpreter.

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@ rockybooth - I would post it on Github for sure. Somebody will respond there if it is not a proper place.

4

@ Architect: Posted. Hopefully the momentum will continue!

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