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codingadventures / LINQBridgeVs

Dumps the content of variables during debugging in Visual Studio to LINQPad
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Is there a way to generate Custom Debugger Visualizer for 3rd Party assemblies? #25

Closed JeremyThomas closed 5 years ago

JeremyThomas commented 9 years ago

I see you create DotNetDynamicVisualizerType.V12.0.dll for the BCL but what about other referenced assemblies?

codingadventures commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately there is no way to create custom debugger visualizers for 3rd party assemblies at the moment. It's something I could add as a new functionality. Although there could be problems for signed or obfuscated assemblies (if there are any). For this reason I map only types of the BCL whose are Serializable only as the assemblies containing the types (mscorlib etc) are all signed.

JeremyThomas commented 9 years ago

Would be good if you could add that ability, perhaps in the same dialog for generating visualizers for referenced projects. From what I see you map non-Serializable types as well, or have I got that wrong?

codingadventures commented 9 years ago

yeah it would, I will consider that for my next release. I think it will be handy.

I map non-Serializable type indeed, but since I need to inject the serializable attribute in every library (otherwise the binary-formatter won't work) I have to open-save, at compile time, all the assemblies and referenced libraries.

In case of signed assemblies, which is the case of Microsoft's assemblies, I have to un-sign or re-sign them if the key is available. I just don't un-sign MS Assemblies to avoid changing any existing ms software.

codingadventures commented 5 years ago

this is going to be a big one, but worth a try.

codingadventures commented 5 years ago

Available in the next release