debuggervisualizer

I have created a debugger visualizer in VS2008. There are two classes i've made, in the same .dll :- BinaryDataDebuggerVisualizer ImageDebuggerVisualizer The image one works fine (eg. the magnify glass appears in debug mode) but not for the byte[] one (BinaryDataDV). What my visualizer does is display the binary data as an image in a modal window (if the data is a legit image). I compiled to code in Release mode, then dropped the .dll into C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Visualizers this is the code that i used to 'define' the vis... using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System

I am trying to create a debugger visualizer that would show control hierarchy for any Control . It's done but I'm getting the exception "Type is not marked as serializable" . How do I overcome that? Control is a .NET Windows Forms framework type, I can't mark it as serializable. You'll need to also implement a VisualizerObjectSource to perform custom serialization. Example: public class ControlVisualizerObjectSource : VisualizerObjectSource { public override void GetData(object target, Stream outgoingData) { var writer = new StreamWriter(outgoingData); writer.WriteLine(((Control)target).Text);

A quite dumb question but i simply can't find the answer. I have a self-written class that implements the IList<T> interface. Now i like to see the containing elements within Debugging like i would with any .Net List<T> . To get this to work i think i have to provide the correct visualizer within the DebuggerVisualizerAttribute . After a little searching all i could find is the folder for additional Visualizer . But there is just one for the DataSet. But what are the types of all the Visualizer already available within Visual Studio (e.g. for string, List, etc.), so that i could provide the

How does Visual Studio show the elements of a vector, or the characters of a string, in C++? Is there a way for me to make it show my own classes in a custom way? Mooing Duck http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zf0e8s14(v=VS.100).aspx For native code, you can add custom data type expansions to the file autoexp.dat, which is located in the Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger directory. Instructions on how to write autoexp rules are located in the file itself. For this class: template<class T> struct auto_array { T* data; int Len; }; the autoexp.data might

The managed debugger in Visual Studio (I am using 11.0) displays string values containing double quotes and backslashes like this: "{\"Text\":\"C:\\\\Temp\"}" Occasionally I would like to display an escaped text like the above one in its plain form: {"Text":"C:\\Temp"} I am aware of the text visualizer which is accessible via the magnifying glass next to the value, but this is rather cumbersome during debugging some text manipulation routine. Is there a way to change the display of string values in the debugger? I see two options that may be less cumbersome then clicking the magnifying glass

I've successfully made several Visual Studio debugger visualizers, and they're working very well, except that on some objects I get a time out error when I try to deserialize the object with objectProvider.GetObject() System.Exception: Function evaluation timed out. at Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DebugViewerShim.PrivateCallback.MaybeDeserializeAndThrowException(Byte[] data) The time out happens rather quickly (maybe about a second after I click on the visualizer icon), even though some of my other visualizers work fine even with large data objects that much longer to display (5