debuggervisualizer

I've come across cases where the Visual Studio C# editor displays extra UI and/or data: The debugger breakpoints configuration introduced in VS 2015 - see here . Ozcode , which augments the editor with debug-time values. I'd like to do something similar, but don't know which Visual Studio APIs to use. I've come across these Visual Studio extensibility technologies: Debugger Visualizers : allows a custom visualizer to be written in C#, but seems to require the output to be in a modal pop-up dialog. Therefore this does not seem to be the right framework. Projection Buffers : Seems promising but

This question is closely related to a subsequently asked question here. The method of defining in-class constants is described here by Stroustrup. When I follow Stroustrup's method I see the expected results. However, in Visual Studio 2010, the debugger cannot resolve a static const class member within that class's scope. Here is what I mean: #include <iostream> class Foo { public: static const int A = 50; char arr[A]; void showA(); }; void Foo::showA() { std::cout << "showA = " << A << "\n"; } int main() { Foo f; f.showA(); } When the debugger is in showA() the "watch" window reports: Error:

I guess this topic is often overseen, but is rather useful when debugging your code. Just today I have stumbled across this simple yet effective visualizer that visualizes images (it's on a german blog, but I guess the code content is self-explanatory): link text I would like to know which debug visualizers you use in your daily work with VS2005/2008. I use Mole . Mole was designed to not only allow the developer to view objects or data, but to also allow the developer to drill into properties of those objects and then edit them. Mole allows unlimited drilling into objects and sub-objects.

In Visual Studio 2015 (and in some older versions) when debugging C# code it's possible to display the values of the string variables in various visualizers (Text, XML, HTML, JSON) via a drop-down list with a magnifying glass icon. This also works for some non-string types, for example, System.Xml.Linq.XElement . Is it possible to use these build-in visualizers to display the value of a variable of my own custom type? Context: I need to be able to quickly check the state of a complicated custom type that can be acceptably visualized only in a multi-line text environment. If I understand your

When I use DebuggerVisualizer attribute as follows c# [assembly: DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(DataSetVisualizer), typeof(DataSetVisualizerSource), Target = typeof(DataTable), Description = "My DataTable Visualizer")] vb.net <Assembly: DebuggerVisualizer(GetType(DataSetVisualizer), GetType(DataSetVisualizerSource), Target := GetType(DataTable), Description := "My DataTable Visualizer")> I can reuse Dataset Visualiser in my visualisers dll. This allows to have built in VS visualizer as first (default) even when a custom DataTable visualizer is defined( How to specify order of debugger visualizers

I created form with grid to visualize any collection ( ICollection , ICollection<T> ) object. After that I created debugger visualizer class (inherits from Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DialogDebuggerVisualizer ). The visualizer is installed propertly (I tried it on System.Collections.ArrayList class). But I have problem with generalize the visualizer to any ICollection / ICollection<T> type. I specified attribute: [assembly: DebuggerVisualizer( typeof( DebugerSide ), typeof( VisualizerObjectSource ), Target = typeof( System.Collections.Generic.ICollection<> ), Description =