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Good morning,
I am trying to locally debug the simple, default algorithm in C#. I am trying to get a debug point to hit on
public override void OnData(Slice data)in the BasicTemplateAlgorithm.cs class.
I followed the instructions here, entered my api information, installed the plugin, and able to submit/view backtests correctly, but the tutorial does not seem to address actually hitting a breakpoint. In fact it even breaks on Debugger.Break() in DebuggerHelper.cs ,but not anywhere in BasicTemplateAlgorithm.cs
https://www.quantconnect.com/tutorials/open-source/backtesting-from-visual-studioI then started trying to follow the youtube tutorials here, but I get "System.NullReferenceException when setting "environment": "backtesting-desktop".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6llfznP4d4I saw some mention that equities are not supported and it looks like Views have been removed from the code. So I wonder if the above video is outdated ?
Any advice is appreciated. Again just trying to breakpoint on OnData().
Michael Ellis
backtesting-desktop is not supported at this time. I was able to get into debug mode on OnData() by updating "algorithm-type-name" to the algorithm I was actually using the breakpoint on. :)
Michael Ellis
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