Visualizers - Facilitates Customized Data View while Debugging

Visualizers in Visual Studio 2005 are part of the Visual Studio debugger user interface. A visualizer is a dialog box that displays a variable or object in a meaningful way that is appropriate to its data type.

You can see the Visualizers by clicking the magnifying glass icon near a DataTip, in a Watch window, in the Autos window, or in the Locals window.

Interesting thing is in the future, you can write your own Visualizer or download from third parties and install them into the Visual Studio debugger.

See the figure for more clarity:

1. In the Code Editor:



2. In the Watch Window:



3. HTML Visualizer: