DDD-alike for Visual Studio?
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Anyone know if there is a graphical debugger (like DDD for unix) that would work with Visual Studio? I'm getting mighty sick of VS's crappy debugging facilities. How hard could it have been for them to let you see a dynamic array's contents?
Hmmm - don't know DDD, but the watch window can accept constructs like *(DynamicArray+4), for example - or you can click-and-get-the-addr and open a memory window... More specifics please - I wanna see what I can't do...
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Hmmm - don't know DDD, but the watch window can accept constructs like *(DynamicArray+4), for example - or you can click-and-get-the-addr and open a memory window... More specifics please - I wanna see what I can't do...
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ There's a Dr Dobbs article at http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0103/0103a/0103a.htm which explains it's usefulness nicely. It's very good at automatically generating visual representations of data structures, and plotting array values in graph form, etc. Really useful for looking at linked-lists and spotting where they point to. I used it at university for linux programming, and now I'm in The Real World I really miss it.
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http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ There's a Dr Dobbs article at http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0103/0103a/0103a.htm which explains it's usefulness nicely. It's very good at automatically generating visual representations of data structures, and plotting array values in graph form, etc. Really useful for looking at linked-lists and spotting where they point to. I used it at university for linux programming, and now I'm in The Real World I really miss it.
I've been trying all day to think of a reply that won't be a complete waste of bandwidth - without much success. Wow. <OFF_THE_TOP_OF_MY_HEAD> All I can think of that might be close to feasable would be an app that could be loaded into the VC container to view the data. I'm not sure its possible for two apps to attach to the same process through the debug API, so it might end up being a 'drag 'n drop' type thing. </OFF_THE_TOP_OF_MY_HEAD> Which might be justifiable in terms of resource usage - DDD looks great, but must be a hog (I know - sour grapes). I'd say there's a hole here that could be filled.