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TECHNICAL SEGMENT - Visual Studio Visualizers

In this segment, we discuss Visual Studio Visualizers, a dialog box or other interface to display appropriate types in a meaningful way.

Default visualizers

Out of the box, Visual Studio provides the following visualizers:
- Text
- HTML
- XML visualizer
- Dataset visualizer (Dataset, DataTable and DataView objects.)

3rd party visualizers

Some useful 3rd party visualizers include Mole, Xml Visualizer, and Zeta Color Visualizer

To deploy/install 3rd party visualizers, copy the .DLL(s) to one of the following directories:
\Install path\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers\
—or—
\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Visualizers\

DEV TIP - Debug Types

Although the ASP.NET worker process (aspnet_wp.exe) defaults to Automatic: T-SQL code, Managed code debug types, you can change or add to the debug types by simply clicking on the [Select] button when attaching to the process. A handy usage would be debugging script.

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