PluginStatsMono Debug installs statistics
By Microsoft (223 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Debuggers
Visual Studio Code debugger extension for Mono
Mono Debug has 1,000,881 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #539 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 3.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 3.55 / 5 from 11 ratings
About Mono Debug
VS Code Mono Debug
A simple VS Code debugger extension for the Mono VM. Its implementation was inspired by the SDB command line debugger.
Installing Mono
You can either download the latest Mono version for Linux, macOS, or Windows at the Mono project website or you can use your package manager.
• On OS X: brew install mono • On Ubuntu, Debian, Raspbian: sudo apt-get install mono-complete • On CentOS: yum install mono-complete • On Fedora: dnf install mono-complete
Enable Mono debugging
To enable debugging of Mono based C# (and F#) programs, you have to pass the -debug option to the compiler:
If you want to attach the VS Code debugger to a Mono program, pass these additional arguments to the Mono runtime:
The corresponding attach launch.json configuration looks like this:
Building the mono-debug extension
Building and using VS Code mono-debug requires a basic POSIX-like environment, a Bash-like shell, and an installed Mono framework.
First, clone the mono-debug project:
To build the extension vsix, run:
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
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Adoption over time
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Ranking history
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Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.mono-debug. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.