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Episode #11 - Visual Studio Visualizers
Published 11/04/2009 12:15 by jessyhoule

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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Jeff Diercks
Jeff Diercks is a consultant for ILM Professional Services. He is a developer, architect and MCSD who has been designing and developing business systems over 10 years. Jeff has fully embraced his nerdiness, and likes to spend his spare time keeping up to date with the latest machinations emanating from the alt.net community and battling monsters with his druidic night elf in World of Warcraft.
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Jessy Houle
Jessy Houle is an independent consultant representing Minnesota. He is a web developer, and MCSD (C# track), loves long romantic nights where he dabbles at the nuts and bolts level of programming. Jessy loves the front-end, most specifically Silverlight, and finally loves to tease Jeff about playing video games :-)
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Vince Bullinger
Vince Bullinger is a .Net developer at Explore Information Services with five years of experience as a developer and consultant in such diverse fields as insurance, health care, custom content management systems and e-commerce, among others. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer. He's the treasurer of TechMasters, an IT-based ToastMasters chapter. In his spare time, he pays too much attention to sports and can frequently be found at the Silverlight User Group, the .Net User Group, Developer's Guild, Code Camp and any worthwhile conference that comes to town.

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