Have you ever stared at objects in a debugger window and wished that you could view those objects by something other than their type? I certainly have! Expanding items to determine each one’s identity can become tiresome very fast. Ideally, it would be great to quickly locate them by a particular property value. Luckily for us, Visual Studio has two not-so-well-known attributes known as DebuggerDisplay for managed users, and Natvis for native C++ users. These attributes let you customize how you view objects in debugger windows such as the Watch, Autos, Locals, and datatips!
July 9th, 2019
Customize object displays in the Visual Studio debugger YOUR way
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