Questions tagged [debuggervisualizer]

Visualizers are components of the IDE debugger user interface that displays a variable or object in a manner that is appropriate to its data type.

Visualizers are components of the IDE debugger user interface. A visualizer creates a dialog box or another interface to display a variable or object in a manner that is appropriate to its data type. For example, an HTML visualizer interprets an HTML string and displays the result as it would appear in a browser window; a bitmap visualizer interprets a bitmap structure and displays the graphic it represents.

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View the contents and the value of variables in the memory

I am trying to create a debugging tool, that would attach to a process and then view the contents of stack and heap. Till now I am using CLRmd to attach to a process and then get the list of the type of variables inside stack and heap but still not…
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Can we display object values/collections in tabular format in visual studio debug visualizer?

Is it feasible to display the object values or collection of object values in tabular format similar to DataTable in visual studio debug visualizer? By writing a custom visualizer? I feel this will give a quick glance of all values at once instead…
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Visual Studio natvis displaying pointer-to-interface

I'm trying to create debug visualizers for our company custom smart pointers. I would like to use ExpandItem to get the contents just one level down, which works for concrete types like ref_ptr, but not for virtual types like…
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unable to install or run C# application on client PC

I have developed a desktop application in c# & SQL server 2012 using Visual Studio 2013. I have included the reference for Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers and set copy local : true. The application runs perfectly on client systems with…
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visual studio 2015 debugger visualizers stopped working

Since yesterday my ability of examining STL variables and boost variables in the watch window suddenly vanished. I've searched for solutions. I already looked for the options below tools-options-debugging -- e.g. use-Managed-Compatibility is off.…
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Debug Watch Expression: How to customize the display of an object in Eclipse

In Eclipse's watch window ("Expressions"), is there a way to have eclipse interpret the contents of a class/structure, rather than having to open the tree? Currently the "value" for any class/structure is {...}, and opening it consumes multiple…
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Debug visualizer - the visualizer dll can't be loaded

I am learning to write a debug visualizer in vs2008 C#. But keep getting the error saying that MyDebugVisualizer dll can't be loaded when I am in debug mode and click the magnifying glass icon. My app project is referencing the visualizer project.…
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Debugger Visualizer Deployment as VSIX new possibilities in VS 2012 / 2013

I've written an Debugger Visualizer for Html Agility Pack (others will follow): http://www.crawler-lib.net/visual-studio-debugger-visualizers I know it wasn't possible to deploy visualizers as VSIX before: Deploy debug visualizer as a VSIX…
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IVisualizerObjectProvider GetObject throws assembly not found exception

I have created a debugger visualizer for a custom class which resides in a c# .net4.5 assembly. When calling GetObject on the IVisualizerObjectProvider, unable to find assembly exception is thrown from the…
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Qt5 Visual Studio 2012 Add-In does not allow debugging into QStack/QVector

I'm using the newest Add-In (1.2.3) but when I try to view the values inside a QVector (Qt 5.3.2) it says 0 (error). It was still working in Qt 4.8.4. Does anyone have a working visualizer for VS2012? The code for the autoexp.dat in the gitorious…
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Debugger Visualizer, ElementHost, and Edit and Continue problems

I recently wrote a custom Debugger Visualizer for Visual Studio 2008 for one of the custom types in my application. The UI for the visualizer is written in WPF and is hosted in an element host and shown using the IDialogVisualizerService…
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Cast to std::string in debug visualizer (autoexp.dat)

I have a class which stores a std::string* in a field void* data, and would like VS2010's debugger to show the string as preview (yes, I need it to be a void pointer). When I tried to access the std::string fields as a starting point, I already…
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Visual Studio custom debugger visualizer cannot load dependency

I created a class library with some custom debugger visualizers -- simple things like viewing a System.Drawing.Image or creating a swatch for System.Drawing.Color. Now I am trying to add a visualizer for a class that depends on an assembly reference…
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Visual Studio: See a MyList class, in Debug, as if it was a DataGrid

I would like to use the DebuggerTypeProxy attribute to show, in Debug, a class using Datatable. I try to better explain what I mean. I can tell VS to show a class using another proxy class. So if I have a list I can tell him to visualize that list…
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General-purpose, open-source tree vizualizer

I consistently implement an ITreeNode interface on all my tree structures. It would be excellent to have a vizualizer available when debugging that would display a tree structure in a treeview. Apart from writing my own from scratch, is there any…
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