EnumerableVisualizer

Visual Studio Debugger Enumerable Visualizer without any [Serialize] attribute, using Json. Works only with .NET.

This is now inbuilt in Visual Studio 2022 from version 17.2 and so this project is deprecated.

The .NET Core support might come with Visual Studio 2019.

This is a still work in progres. Pretty much it is an un-edited experiment.

Source

• https://github.com/zspitz/ExpressionToString
• https://github.com/JeremyThomas/rapiddevbookcode/blob/LLBL_Pro_v4.2/AW.DebugVisualizers/VisualizerRegistrations.cs
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JeremyThomas/rapiddevbookcode/LLBL_Pro_v4.2/AW.DebugVisualizers/VisualizerRegistrations.cs
• https://github.com/MBulli/MathNetDebugVisualizer
• https://wrightfully.com/series/debugger-visualizer
• https://github.com/ChenDaqian/Visual-Studio-Visualizer
• https://github.com/moraleslarios/MLCollectionVisualizers
• https://github.com/huanent/Huanent.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers

Features

• Visual Studio 2017, 2019
• One level nesting, deeper items displayed in json string
• Displaying result in DataTable in DataGridView
• Column sorting
• Filter and highlight searched words
• Select, copy and paste to Excel
• Currently supported: List<>, Array, ArrayList

Installation

Copy the following files from the folder Dist (or compiled files) to your version of Visual Studio c:\Users\YOUR-PROFILE-NAME\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Visualizers\

• CodeCapital.EnumerableVisualizer.dll
• Newtonsoft.Json.dll

Known issues

• Many I am not aware of
• A list with duplicate property name (e.g. upper/lower case issue UserId, UserID) throws an error as DataTable doesn't accept duplicate columns, this is rather rare situation, most likely bad object design

ToDo

• Create Tests
• Add more collection types
• Save window position, height, width
• Check if there are not better DataGridView options

At the moment we can visualize these simple collections, test examples:

Example 3.1

Example 6

var list1 = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };

var list2 = new List<string> { "Vaso", "Lena", "Helean", "Eva", "Viktoria", "Ada", "Lucia" };

var list3 = new List<Person>
{
    new Person("Vaso", 40, new Car("VW", 2017, DateTime.Now)),
    new Person("Lena", 45, new Car("Skoda", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5))),
    new Person("Phu", 20, new Car("Skoda", 3000, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5))),
    new Person("John", 45, new Car("Skoda Subaru", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5))),
    new Person("Bob", 20, new Car("Skoda 23", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5)))
};

var list31 = new List<Person>
{
    new Person("Vaso", 40, new Car("VW", 2017, DateTime.Now, new Gadget("Phone"))),
    new Person("Lena", 45, new Car("Skoda", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5), new Gadget("Phone"))),
    new Person("Phu", 20, new Car("Skoda", 3000, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5), new Gadget("Tv"))),
    new Person("John", 45, new Car("Skoda Subaru", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5), new Gadget("Phone"))),
    new Person("Bob", 20, new Car("Skoda 23", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5), new Gadget("Radio")))
};

var list4 = new List<Car>
{
    new Car("VW", 80),
    new Car("Skoda", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(0)),
    new Car("VW 2", 2018, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-10)),
    new Car("B Skoda", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(30)),
    new Car("8080 2018", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-500))
};

var list5 = new[]
{
    new Person("Vaso", 40, new Car("VW", 80, DateTime.Now)),
    new Person("Sandy", 23, new Car("Porsche", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5)))
};

var list6 = new[]
{
    new Person("Vaso", 40, null),
    new Person("Sandy", 23, new Car("Porsche", 300, DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5)))
};

var list7 = new[]
{
    new Person { Name = "Vaso"},
    new Person()
};

var list8 = new[]
{
    new Gadget("Phone"),
    new Gadget("Radio"),
    new Gadget(""),
    new Gadget("Self Drive"),
    new Gadget("Tv")
};

var list9 = new[]
{
    new Car(new Gadget("Phone")),
    new Car(new Gadget("Radio")),
    new Car(new Gadget("")),
    new Car(new Gadget("Self Drive")),
    new Car(new Gadget("Tv"))
};