{"id":237616,"date":"2022-04-21T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=237616"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T16:33:19","slug":"view-net-collections-with-the-new-ienumerable-debugger-visualizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/view-net-collections-with-the-new-ienumerable-debugger-visualizer\/","title":{"rendered":"View .NET collections with the new IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer"},"content":{"rendered":"

While debugging .NET code, inspecting a large and complex collection object<\/span> can <\/span>be tedious and difficult<\/span>. Hence, starting from Visual Studio 17.2. Preview 2, we are introducing a new Visualizer, which will help you view IEnumerable objects such as Arrays, List, etc. in a <\/span>customized <\/span>tabular view.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The IEnumerable visualizer will display collections of objects in a table with a row per object and sortable columns for each field and property.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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IEnumerable Visualizer<\/span><\/p>\n

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Download Visual Studio 2022 Preview<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

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Visualize data with IEnumerable Visualizer<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The <\/span>IEnumerable<\/span> Visualizer is an extension to the existing <\/span>Dataset Visualizer Dialog Box – Visual Studio (Windows) | Microsoft Docs<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>You can access this visualizer by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the Value in a debugger variables window or in a <\/span>DataTips<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> The icon is available for suitable IEnumerable<\/span><T> implementations where T can be simple types like List or Arrays or complex types like dictionaries, encapsulated, etc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the case of complex objects where object properties can be another object, the <\/span>IEnumerable<\/span> visualizer will show just the immediate object properties. T<\/span>o view all <\/span>child properties of the object in a table cell,<\/span> you can use the \u201cExpand Column\u201d option from the column header’s right-click context menu. If you want to focus on specific columns, you can use the \u201cHide Column\u201d option or the \u201cHide Children\u201d option to hide all expanded properties<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hide\/Expand Columns <\/span><\/p>\n

If the object being visualized has multiple implementations of IEnumerable, the Visualizer will show the first implementation of the object by default. You can use the drop-down on the top to explore members and fields provided by each implementation.<\/p>\n

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Sorting and Export<\/span><\/h3>\n

The visualizer also supports column sorting in ascending or descending order. Just click on the column title to sort it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, if you are interested in exporting the data from the visualizer, <\/span>you can use the Export button in the top-right corner. It will open the data in Excel (with more options such as exporting to CSV coming in future releases).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Export & Sort<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us know what you think!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

This is the first step toward creating a streaming data visualization experience while debugging. We are constantly working on improving this feature and adding new capabilities in upcoming<\/a> releases. We appreciate you taking the time to try our latest features and hope you will provide honest feedback by taking this brief survey.<\/p>\n

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While debugging .NET code, inspecting a large and complex collection object can be tedious and difficult. Hence, starting from Visual Studio 17.2. Preview 2, we are introducing a new Visualizer, which will help you view IEnumerable objects such as Arrays, List, etc. in a customized tabular view.\u00a0 The IEnumerable visualizer will display collections of objects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26573,"featured_media":237671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[6793,9,6839,6815],"class_list":["post-237616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-studio","tag-debugger","tag-debug","tag-developer-productivity","tag-visual-studio-2022"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

While debugging .NET code, inspecting a large and complex collection object can be tedious and difficult. Hence, starting from Visual Studio 17.2. Preview 2, we are introducing a new Visualizer, which will help you view IEnumerable objects such as Arrays, List, etc. in a customized tabular view.\u00a0 The IEnumerable visualizer will display collections of objects […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}