Scott Nonnenberg - Visualizers in VS 2005

Posted By: Charles | Feb 22nd, 2006 @ 4:14 PM

Ken Levy takes his camcorder into the office of Scott Nonnenberg, a program manager on the C# team, to discuss using Visualizers in VS 2005 debugging. The demos include easy steps to create your own custom Visualizers.

Tags: CSharp, VB.NET, Visual Studio

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papavb

one of the nicest features of visual sudio

mwirth

yep indeed. the one thing i really like about the new debugging story of vs 2005 is the capability of debugging native c++ stl containers (gotta hold the native c++ flag high these days Wink

). i suppose this isn't even related to the managed visualizers but for me that's a killer feature.. even when i use say a std::vector of std::pair and i hover over an instance i get a nice 2 x N matrix of values. for me that justifies the existence of the vs2005 ide by itself.

cheers,
martin

superjodash

I gave writing a DateTime visualizer a shot when I needed some formatting information. If you're interested, I posted the source code on my site. http://jkemp.blogspot.com/2006/02/datetime-visualizer-for-visual-studio.html Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

Boomport
SG1: Deep Space Radar Telemetry is the job to have.

ZEO, where are you man. I have gotten used to your comments. Don't let one whiner keep you from expressing it.

This is Cool functionality! Great job Ken. Its been a long time since we heard from you.

digitalsurgeon

teh dataset visualizer is the best one, relly usefull.

henningst
Jon Blund

Great interview, but it's kind of annoying when the interviewer interrupts the interviewee all the time...!

VBCoder
VBCoder

I think the debugger team need to acquaint developers more with the new features of the visualizers like dataset for instance. It is an amazing feature.