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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Circular Double Linked list visualization using natvis

I would like to write a natvis visualizer for a double linked list. The list does not have a count node stored, and the easy way does not work very well, as the expansion never stops (next is never null, the last item of the list is pointing to the…
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Inspect value of std::stringstream in Visual Studio 2005

Is there a way to inspect the value ( .str() ) of std::ostringstream when debugging in VS2005? Like modifying the autoexp.dat file to make stringstream value visualizable?
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Visual studio autoexp.dat alternative?

Custom debug visualization in visual studio: Is there any way to do it per project instead of editing the "global" autoexp.dat? Would be nice if it tagged along when changing workstation..
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Does anyone have a Control Visualizer for VS 2005

I am looking for the source and download of the Control Visualizer which is developed by Brett Johnson, but i am unable to find any links related for downloading the Visualizer and also unable to find any source code for the same. I am using VS…
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Installed Custom Visualizer not loading in VS2022

I am trying for some hours to install a custom visualizer in VS2022. Basically it is a simple string visualizer that opens a wpf form. I followed this:…
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How to visualize data flow in a tensorflow project

I am trying to debug this project : https://github.com/VisualComputingInstitute/TrackR-CNN This is a MaskRCNN based project and I want to visualize the data flow among various functions in…
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Visual Studio debugger shows Date Time as Ticks when mouse hover instead of an understandable Date String Format

In visual studio (I'm using 2019), during debugging, when I hover over a DateTime object, it shows the date in Ticks instead of a readable date string (such as YYYY-MM-dd HH:mm:ss, etc). The picture below shows this annoying behavior. I remember in…
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Debugger Visualizer Winform ToolStripDropDownMenu ComboBox only shows items when first shown

I have a Visual Studio debugger visualizer project, and when I add a ToolStripComboBox to a ToolStripDropDownMenu, the combobox's items only appear the first time the form is shown. Like this: The most basic version of the winform code showing the…
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visual studio 2017 debugger does not show variables when C# Array.ConvertAll is used

When I use C# Array.ConvertAll, the variable in the body of the converter function is not visible any more in the debugger in Visual Studio 2017. For example in: public static void Test() { Vector3[] OriginalArray = new Vector3 [3]{ new…
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How to create a DebuggerVisualizer for build in generic classes or arrays

I am using VisualStudio DebuggerVisualizer for many of my own classes by applying the DebuggerVisualizer attribute to those classes. Now I would also like to show something like List with a single DialogDebuggerVisualizer. Of course I can…
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How to adress/ call my custom tool window in Visual Studio

Through this simple MSDN tutorial I build my own CustomToolWindow. But I cannot find any way to fill it with something because I cannot find a way to reference it. The goal is to combine it with this tutorial with which I was able to build a…
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"This function requires all threads to evaluate" after `new AdhocWorkspace()` within VS custom visualizer

I am trying to write a visualizer that maps expressions in an expression tree to Roslyn syntax nodes, in order to generate code for the expression tree. Part of the syntax tree generation is a call to the AdhocWorkspace constructor. When I run the…
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Debugger showing wrong values for float

I noticed that some float variables are being shown wrong in Visual Studio 2017 debugger, although the internal value is right, that is, it is only wrong in the debug view. For example: obj_carro.vel1000rpm.push_back(stof(parte[2].substr(0,…
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How to get std::pair to display as a proper string segment in Visual Studio's debugger?

How do I get std::pair to display as a proper string segment in Visual Studio, rather than as two pointers to null-terminated strings?
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How to change/improve debugger UI in Visual Studio Code?

I am looking for ways to create my own window to show different threads and other information in a different way. I found following is written at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/overview " Debug Adapter# VS Code implements a generic…