Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/114b/ccb730e1-c17a-4c92-8ab3-da912aeb114b/IntroImageWatch_220.jpg Channel 9 - Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging Image Watch is a new Visual Studio 2012 plug-in for debugging C++ image and video processing applications, for example photo or augmented reality apps. Image Watch provides a watch window that can display in-memory bitmaps during debugging, so you no longer need to litter your code with "save-this-intermediate-image-to-a-file" statements when tracking down bugs. The initial release has built-in support for OpenCV image types and can be extended for viewing user-defined image types as well. Here, Wolf Kienzle, Senior Research Developer, Interactive Visual Media group, Microsoft Research Redmond, explains and demos this excellent new tool for C++ developers building image, video or augmented reality apps. In effect, you can step into pixels. Excellent! en Thu, 23 May 2013 16:21:53 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 16:21:53 GMT Rev9 Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging Very cool, it's almost like having the Processing environment in the VC++ IDE! 

posted by tomkirbygreen

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634975891987614250 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:13:18 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634975891987614250 tomkirbygreen Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging I agree. Very cool.

This should be integrated in all future versions of VS supporting all languages. (including all .NET framework image types of course)

posted by n0x30n

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634975930541530078 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:17:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634975930541530078 n0x30n Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging If you have technical questions you'd like addressed, we're going to dig into this in much more detail soon, so feel free to ask here.

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posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976154708697085 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:31:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976154708697085 Charles Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging posted by daniel z

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976413931040805 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:43:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976413931040805 daniel z Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging Really amazing tool. Have worked with it barely one day and I'm already wondering how I could have ever lived without it.

Any chance we could get support for additional channel formats? For example, I'm currently working with OpenGL textures stored as ABGR. It would be awesome if you could add some more permutations there. Or maybe even a generic mechanism for mapping color channels? After all, as inhabitants of the C++ land we are not afraid of bitmasks.

posted by ComicSansMS

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976793159131724 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:15:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976793159131724 ComicSansMS Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging @daniel z: You can view your own image types; details are described here. Regarding your second question, Image Watch does not play videos, but you can view individual frames as long as they are in a supported format (uncompressed interleaved 8bit RGB, for example).

posted by wolfkienzle

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976885858470593 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:49:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976885858470593 wolfkienzle Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging @ComicSansMS: Thanks! Yes, additional channel formats is something we are definitely considering. Please stay tuned!

posted by wolfkienzle

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976891454600391 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:59:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634976891454600391 wolfkienzle Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging Are you going to support planar images in the future?

posted by AlessandroV

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634979876479628112 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:54:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634979876479628112 AlessandroV Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging So close to being useful.  We don't use OpenCV but would love to get the natvis description for some common MS formats such as:

Gdiplus::Bitmap, Gdiplus::Image, WIC Images, HBITMAP

posted by schroedl

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634980048898505949 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:41:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634980048898505949 schroedl Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging One other note, after installing this and restarting VS2012 Up1 my color scheme changed. I have the MS theme editor and it unexpectedly switched from the Light theme to a Red theme.

posted by schroedl

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634980049972100342 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:43:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634980049972100342 schroedl Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging @AlessandroV: Yes, we are going to support planar images in the future, possibly with the next update. Smiley

posted by wolfkienzle

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981084288749401 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:27:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981084288749401 wolfkienzle Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging @schroedl: The natvis description requires a pointer to the pixel data, which is not immediately accessibly with opaque handles like HBITMAP. That said, you can write natvis descriptions for the corresponding "locked" structures, e.g. BitmapData. We are currently working on a mechanism for supporting opaque types, but these are a bit tricky since you potentially need to run code in your app to get at the pixels.

posted by wolfkienzle

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981099140238297 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:51:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981099140238297 wolfkienzle Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging posted by Kirill Kornyakov

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981645634551779 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:02:43 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981645634551779 Kirill Kornyakov Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging posted by Axel Rietschin

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981802364501136 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:23:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634981802364501136 Axel Rietschin Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging
Apart from that little issue I'm really liking this plug-in. Thanks!

posted by M Hogdahl

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634983966851331478 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:31:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634983966851331478 M Hogdahl Re: Introducing Image Watch - A VS 2012 Plug-In for C++ Image and Video Debugging @M Hogdahl:Yes, that's a bug, sorry. We'll have that fixed in the next update. Please see the Q&A section on the VS Gallery page for more information.

posted by wolfkienzle

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634986148882048687 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:08:08 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introducing-Image-Watch#c634986148882048687 wolfkienzle