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Lacking VSCode natvis constructs

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp, vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start with the VS Code natvis documentation and the linked Visual Studio custom-list-items example, then inspect MIEngine's existing natvis support for the five requested constructs. Done means supporting CustomListItems, Variable, Exec, Loop, and If well enough to visualize hash maps, sets, and dictionaries, with coverage for the implemented behavior.

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Description

I'm going by the docs, submitting an issue where VSCode functionality is missing.
We (and probably many, many others) wish to use visualizers to debug hash maps and other standard data structures. Following the documented example, a few natvis constructs are needed for this:

  1. CustomListItems,
  2. Variable,
  3. Exec,
  4. Loop,
  5. If

It seems at least the first item isn't implemented, I suspect the rest too. It would be very valuable to be able to watch various hash maps, sets and dictionaries.

Dominant language
C#
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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