Write Visual Studio visualizations using C++

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reading the ConcordExtensibilitySamples API and the cppwinrt natvis example linked in the issue. Compare their programmatic visualization approach with the STL's current built-in XML visualizations, then clarify which STL types and debugger behavior should be covered. Done requires an agreed scope and working Visual Studio visualizations with validation criteria.

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visualizer

The current visualization of STL uses the built-in XML dialect, which is inflexible. The debugger actually has an API https://github.com/Microsoft/ConcordExtensibilitySamples/ that allows types to be visualized programmatically. Perhaps STL could consider adopting it. A complete example is https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/tree/master/natvis.

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