VisualizerDevelopmentHost Class
Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Public Class VisualizerDevelopmentHost
'Usage
Dim instance As VisualizerDevelopmentHost
public class VisualizerDevelopmentHost
public ref class VisualizerDevelopmentHost
public class VisualizerDevelopmentHost
Remarks
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.
Examples
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
Inheritance Hierarchy
System.Object
Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.VisualizerDevelopmentHost
Thread Safety
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.