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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Breeze.js - is there something like visualizer to examine local entity cache?

I am getting better with Chrome and Firefox debugging tools but I still have not found a way to easily examine the local entity cache managed by Breeze. I can see the data coming over the wire easily but once I am working against the local cache I…
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Unable to load DebuggerVisualizer

I am having a similar problem, I created a debug visualiser: using System.Windows.Forms; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers; [assembly: System.Diagnostics.DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(MatrixVisualizers.MatrixVisualiser),…
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Installation of OzCode on VS 2012 Update 2 Windows 8 64bit

I have downloaded the latest version of OzCode (OzCode_0.9.3426.6578_6988) and while I tried to install it. The visual studio integration page of OzCode setup lists the VS versions but the the checkbox next to the VS version is not clickable( can't…
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Vs 2012 natvis: possible to define class in xml?

I am currently trying to create a natvis XML file for a large Project at work. We have a Pointer to a type, which the Debugger knows nothing of (Information hiding with a typedef, it was a stupid idea by the author, but can't be changed at the…
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Is it possible to disable both debugger visualization and ToString() invocation in all the debugger views of VS2008?

My project depends on a 3rd party assembly which defines debugger visualizers for some of its types. Usually this is totally fine, but some types have lazy logic, which becomes eager once the data is observed in the debugger. And when I wish to…
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Visual studio custom visualizer target type for user defined classes and collections

I have written one custom visualizer for visual studio, which works on class (user defined) and collection (generics). But its now showing in application. i have put the dlls on proper place and thats not a issue... the issue is its Type defining. I…
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Are there any MVC Visualizers out there?

Are there any debug visualizers for Visual Studio for MVC? Would be great to be able to visualize things like ModelState, ViewState, Routes etc. If you're interested in this just favorite the question. If it gets a lot of favorites I'll think about…
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How to create a custom Debugger Visualizer in VS2010 to visualize a class which is non-Serializable?

I want to visualize an object with a custom Debugger Visualizer in VS2010. But the object of that class does not have Serializable property. Since the Source code is written and maintained for long, I don't want to change the class to Serializable…
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How to create a Visual-Studio string visualizer?

I was trying to create a visualizer for IDictionary or ICollection Then like the simple visualizer (without dialog; I mean the ususal string visualizer that appears when hovering the variable, see image below), I want to make my custom text, I want…
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Gui for debugging comparing large collections of Java objects in parallel files.

I have some large, binary files with serialized data in them. I would like to create a "generic" ObjectGUI that allows me , for example to . 1) Select several files 2) Select a "reader" or "handler" class 3) Open each file in columns 4) View the…
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Debug Visualizer for xCode

According to this book XCode by James Bucanek the xCode comes with a Debug Visualizer. But the author never mentions how to open it, a surprise. Does anybody know how to open Debug Visualizer?
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How can you view the values of Eigen/unsupported/Tensor objects in a debugger?

I have a c++ program that uses a lot of tensor and matrix arithmetic. I chose the c++ Eigen library for this purpose, even though the Tensor module is not officially supported by the maintainers, because of all the functionalities it offers and…
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How to customize debugger for custom language generating C++ during preprocessing in VS2019?

We are using custom language say FileName.xyz which on precompilation preprocessing temporarily generates C++ files, which in turn is built to an executable (and PDB for temporary C++ files symbols). We want to Debug this Filename.xyz using…
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MSVC 2022 / natvis definition only shows in datatip but not in local/watch window

I defined a natvis file like this: and I can see the effect in the Datatips when hovering over a variable name: But the definition not use in the Local or Watch window in the debugger: Only the stand view is shown, and the display string isn't…
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Visual Studio debugger visualizers for Mozilla objects

Are there any Visual Studio debugger visualizers for Mozilla objects (e.g. nsString)? I'm looking for something like the boost visualizers.
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