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title: "Debug your Application using a Wiimote"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/10/debug-your-application-using-a-wiimote.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/10/debug-your-application-using-a-wiimote.html"
published: "2007-06-10T15:10:21"
updated: "2007-06-10T15:10:21"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The guys an MainSoft are insanely cool. They developed a product (has a free version) that allows compiling .NET to Java , basically allowing you to have VS 2005 and .NET (VB or C# ) as the front end development…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Debug your Application using a Wiimote

By Roy Osherove June 10, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published June 10, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

The guys an [MainSoft](http://dev.mainsoft.com/) are insanely cool. They developed a product (has a free version)[that allows compiling .NET to Java](http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=130), basically allowing you to have VS 2005 and .NET (VB or C# ) as the front end development environment for real Java applications that can run on J2EE servers (that includes full interop with Java from the .NET point of view such as adding Jar References and such).

But that's not why I'm talking about them right now.

[Rafael Mizrahi](http://rafaelmizrahi.blogspot.com/), the QA Lead at Mainsoft, who's [also a known GarageGeek here in Israel](http://www.garagegeeks.org/), plays true to his nickname, and hacked together a Wiimote powered Visual Studio Debugger. So the same remote that allows you to play Virtual Tennis in Nintendo Wii can now be used to debug and step into your .NET code, and of course, your Java code from .NET using [GrassHopper](http://dev.mainsoft.com/Default.aspx?tabid=130), their application framework).

here is the video [he released](http://rafaelmizrahi.blogspot.com/2007/06/wii-debugging-visual-studio-2005-and.html):

[![](https://osherove.com/img/video/yt-Y2598d7Pxlk.jpg)Play videoWiimote Debugging in VS2005 & Running .NET on Linux](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2598d7Pxlk)

**P.S**

I might start working with Mainsoft in the coming days, should be a lot of fun!


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## About the author

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