One of the features that I'm most looking forward to in Visual Studio “Whidbey” is visualizers.
As you can see (no pun intended) in the XML visualizer above, visualizers are a useful and very powerful way to help debug applications, but how does one actually create a custom visualizer? Good News, ScottNo blogged on how you can create your own custom visualizers! Definitely check it out, and send Scott your requests/ideas for other visualizers
I envision all of the VSIP and other 3rd-party component vendors could use visualizers to create rich visualizations of their custom data types, and developers creating their own visualizers for commonly used features like:
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Generic collections
Hierarchical data (trees, linked lists)
ObjectSpaces
ASP.NET Session State, ViewState, Cache
and much more...
Comments
- Anonymous
February 20, 2004
Where is Big Bird? - Anonymous
February 20, 2004
http://blogs.msdn.com/scottno/archive/2004/02/20/77249.aspx - Anonymous
February 21, 2004
XML Visualizers in Whidbey