Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Debugger Visualizers

Debugger visualizers are built-in tools that enable viewing information on objects, controls, members, and variables (generally complex data) in a particular format. For example, if you place a breakpoint on the following line of code of the sample project

Dim result As Boolean = Test(lineRead)

you can then open the Locals window and select the lineRead variable. In the Value column, notice the small magnifying glass that you can click. From there you can choose how you want to visualize information on the lineRead variable, such as Text format, XML format, and HTML format. Of course, trying to view the content of plain text as XML content dos not provide any benefits, but in the case you have a string representing XML ...