There is a section in the Mere Mortals help file titled "Stepping through MM .NET Code in the Debugger" that explains a simple way to step through the Mere Mortals code. You only have to do the setup one time and your solution saves the settings. Here's what it says:


Normally, when you step through your code in the VS .NET Debugger and you step into a method that calls an MM .NET base class, you don't step through the MM .NET code. If you want this capability, you need to tell VS .NET where to find the Framework's Program Database (PDB) files. A PDB file contains debugging and project state information. It is created when you compile a VS .NET project using the /debug option (which is used by default for new projects). For more information on PDB files, see the .NET Help topic "PDB Files".

To tell VS .NET where to find the MM .NET PDB files:
In the Solution Explorer, right-click your solution node (the first node in the tree), and select Properties from the shortcut menu.

In the Solution Properties dialog, select Common Properties | Debug Symbols.

This lists all the paths .NET searches for PDB files at run time.

Click the New Line button in the upper right corner of the dialog to add a new line to the search path list:


In the newly added line, click the ellipses button [...]:

In the Replace Directory dialog, navigate to the Mere Mortals Framework directory. The default installation path for this directory is:

C:\Program Files\Mere Mortals .NET Framework 2003\Mere Mortals Framework

Click the Open button to select this directory.

If you are working with a Windows Forms project, repeat the previous three steps for this directory:

Mere Mortals Framework Windows Forms
If you are working with a Web Forms project, repeate the previous three steps for this directory:

Mere Mortals Framework Web Forms

Click OK to close the Solution Properties dialog.

Now when you step through code in the Debugger, you should see the MM .NET source code.

Matthew Price