VisualizerDevelopmentHost Class
Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll)
The VisualizerDevelopmentHost type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Equals | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ShowVisualizer() | |
| ShowVisualizer(Control) | |
| ShowVisualizer(IWin32Window) | |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
You can use this class to create a harness for testing and debugging a debugger visualizer. Visualizers are small custom applications called from the Visual Studio debugger to display data objects in a manner appropriate to their data type. The VisualizerDevelopmentHost class enables you to run a visualizer for testing and debugging purposes without installing the visualizer into Visual Studio. Using the harness makes debugging a visualizer much easier.
The following example code creates a visualizer development host and calls the host to show the visualizer. MyDataObject is the data object you want to show in the visualizer. MyVisualizer is the visualizer itself.
public static void TestShowVisualizer(object MyDataObject)
{
VisualizerDevelopmentHost visualizerHost = new VisualizerDevelopmentHost (MyDataObject, typeof(MyVisualizer);
visualizerHost.ShowVisualizer();
}
The calling code looks as follows:
String myString = "Hello, World!"; // Create an object to visualize Visualizer1.TestShowVisualizer(myString); // Call the host to visualize it
