Data Tips
While you are debugging, a data tip is displayed when the cursor is paused over a variable. Data tips are used with both simple and complex data types. A complex data type is collapsed in the data tip, and you can expand it to view members.
Visualizers
Visualizers display data tips in an alternate format, when the default format is not convenient or is unrelated to the underlying data type. For example, there is a DataSet visualizer and an Extensible Markup Language (XML) visualizer. A dataset object is more than the composition of all its members, which is normally presented in a data tip. Datasets are an abstraction of a hierarchal data source. Viewing the dataset in that format could be helpful. Another example is reading and processing ...
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