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  • Tips for writing Debugger Visualizers in VS.NET 2005

    VS.NET 2005 comes with a new feature, called Debugger Visualizers. A debugger visualizer is a small piece of code which visualizes the object currently hovered by the mouse in a debug session, of course after you hit a breakpoint. While the VS.NET 2005 debugger is a great improvement over its slow little brother in VS.NET 2003, sometimes you still want to look at the data inside an object in a more convenient way than the debugger shows you. With visualizers you can.