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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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Visual Studio Visualizer for IEnumerable

TL;DR Does anyone know how to write a Debug Visualizer for Visual Studio 2012, in C#, so I can visualize IEnumerable, string[] or similar objects? More Info Visual Studio Debug Visualizer are great, and I use some popular ones (Mole)…
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Which (third-party) debug visualizers for Visual Studio 2005/2008 do you use?

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…
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How do I obtain a reference to the object or its data from my external viewer debugger visualizer?

I am trying to write a debugger visualizer for a TJSONObject or a TJSONValue. I have most of the visualizer working nicely. The problem I am having is getting a reference to the TJSONObject, or at least to the tostring() value of the…
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Why do some properties go out of scope in the watch list, while others do not?

First of all, sorry for the lengthy code example, but I believe it's needed to illustrate my problem. As a debugging help I often introduce a "DebugString"-method on my objects, which returns a concise object summary. But sometimes my objects are…
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Debugger visualizer for any ICollection and ICollection types

I created form with grid to visualize any collection (ICollection, ICollection) object. After that I created debugger visualizer class (inherits from Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DialogDebuggerVisualizer). The visualizer is…
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ObservableCollection visualizer - does such a thing exist?

I am finding myself working with ObservableCollection quite a bit. I've looked around, but I can't seem to find an ObservableCollection Debug Visualizer. Does such a thing exist?
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How can I intercept function return values in a Delphi Debugger Visualizer?

I have a working debugger visualizer that helps visualize variables of type TIntTime. TIntTime = type integer; The visualizer replaces a number of seconds since midnight with a time string HH:MM:SS. This works fine on variables of type TIntTime…
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Visual Studio 2015 debug visualizer changes

I am trying to use EnumerableDebugVisualizer and List Visualizer unfortunately none of them has a build for Visual Studio 2015. I tried using the DLLs provided which are for VS 2013 and VS 2010 and both of them error with the following message type…
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VISUAL STUDIO 2010 DataSet Visualizer issue Cannot evaluate expression

I am using VS-10. I was debugging my code the DataSet Visualizer in Debug mode stopped working and I am getting the below error. IMPORTANT : If I remove Test function call it work correctly. Asp.Net c# web site project in debug mode. %temp%…
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How does the Visual Studio debugger decide which values can be viewed with the Text/XML/HTML Visualizer?

I noticed that when I view variables of certain types, such as XElement, in the Watch window in Visual Studio, if I click on the Debug Visualizers magnifying glass, the same visualizers that apply on strings (Text, XML, HTML) appear. I haven't seen…
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DataSetVisualizer & Remote Debugging in Visual Studio

We use Lab Manager to test on multiple platforms and do remote debugging by creating a Windows account with the same name and password on both the local dev box and the VM in Lab Manager (causes the VS debugger to think that the same account is…
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Xcode 4.1 custom DataFormatter bundle

I'm trying to make a custom Data Formatter bundle to allow me to print things like STL containers more prettily, etc. I've followed the instructions online as well as I can, however I can't seem to get any bundle code to run. All I can do is get…
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Visualizer for WPF elements

Trying to create visualizers for some WPF elements including DrawingImage and UIElement etc. While creating a visualizer was trivial, my visualizers always throw exception that the target object types (DrawingImage and UIElement that is) are not…
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Howto create (VC14) debug visualiser for string_view?

I’m using boost::string_view. (www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/boost/utility/string_view.hpp) Its got a const char* ptr_ and a unsigned int len_ data member. When debugging its cumbersome, as the default visualiser will show the char ptr_ with more…
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Mole for VS 2010?

Does anyone know about Karl Shifflett's Mole for VS 2010?
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