README.md

Visualizers for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015

Note

This repository is now archived and no longer maintained. Please, use (and support!) the excellent work by Adam available here:

• https://github.com/awulkiew/graphical-debugging
• https://github.com/awulkiew/graphical-debugging-vscode
• https://github.com/awulkiew/debugging-helpers

This is collection of visualizers for Microsoft Visual Studio debugger. Most of the visualizers are developed for Visual Studio 2012+ which uses new style XML-based visualizers.

Download at https://github.com/mloskot/visualstudio-debugger

Usage

Copy all or selected .natvis and .natfilter files to your profile folder

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Visualizers

Documentation

There are two sources of documentation I have found:

1. Comments in defaultvis.natvis provide a good overview of the format

    %VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers\defaultvis.natvis
   

2. The debugger visualizers XML Schema is installed in

    %VSINSTALLDIR%\Xml\Schemas\natvis.xsd
   

References

• Using Visual Studio 2013 to write maintainable native visualizations
• C++ Debugger Visualizers for VS2012 by Arkadiy Shapkin
• Debugger visualizers in Visual Sudio 11 Developer Preview
• Setting EnableNatvisDiagnostics in Visual Studio 11
• Modular visualizers in Visual Studio 11

License

Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Mateusz Loskot mateusz@loskot.net

Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

See also important notes about exclusions in individual files.