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• Cagri Aslan [MSFT] commented  ·  July 17, 2012 1:45 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Yes, there will be a way to display user-drawn UI. The documentation and samples for it is yet to come.

• No name commented  ·  July 17, 2012 10:04 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Is there any way with the native visualizers to have a display which consists of a user-drawn graphic, rather than just text?

• Maria B [MSFT] commented  ·  July 17, 2012 9:41 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  We just posted some more details about natvis on the C++ blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/07/12/10329460.aspx . We look forward to your feedback.

• Ofek Shilon commented  ·  June 2, 2012 6:13 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Whaddayaknow, MS actually did improve this. AutoExp is replaced by NatVis files, as implied here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/5e847744-aa01-49cd-ac47-fe32da1673a3/#c3f5456c-7e7a-414c-9cb5-17da2f7705bb.

  I'm just starting to fiddle with it, but looks like Mateusz Loskot already did some experimentation:
  http://mateusz.loskot.net/2011/11/19/debugger-visualizers-in-visual-sudio-11-developer-preview/

• David Ikeda commented  ·  March 6, 2012 2:37 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This would be fantastic. The visualizer is so powerful. Example: if we could embed MSVC-specific code into our source code for the visualizer, that would be incredibly powerful (of course within a preprocessor check for MSVC since many of us have to support multiple platforms). Doing it per-project would also be fantastic: pretty much any solution which allows us to distribute the solution easily without modifying our MSVC installations would make a world of difference.

  The visualizer is such a potentially powerful tool for debugging. Combined with the frequent need in C++ to create user-defined types, it makes the MSVC debugger one of the best in the industry. The ability to be able to see the contents of std::vector, for example, is one of the most compelling arguments against the standard C++ naysayers on our team who think that code using standard C++ containers is hard to debug.

  Finally, this is not some new and radical feature. It's a feature Microsoft is already using themselves. We just want it to be a bit more official (documented and supported) and a bit more externally extensible. There's a gold mine of power here that could easily become one of MSVC's top debugger/IDE features that put the competition to shame.

• Arkadiy Shapkin commented  ·  September 21, 2011 2:41 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Support additional autoexp.dat for project would be awesome

• Ben Voigt [Visual C++ MVP] commented  ·  August 29, 2011 10:19 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Support, including better documentation, good examples, and some visualizer debugger, would be awesome.