If you have been through Microsoft DevLabs, you will find lots of cool tools or feature extensions under development and you can download and try at the very early stages of it’s development.
One tool I came across today is “Debugger Canvas“.
Debugger Canvas:
Debugger Canvas is a new user experience for the debugger in Visual Studio Ultimate. It pulls together the code you’re exploring onto a single pan-and-zoom display. As you hit breakpoints or step into code, Debugger Canvas shows just the methods that you’re debugging, with call lines and local variables, to help you see the bigger picture.
Debugger Canvas is the result of a collaboration between Brown University and Microsoft, integrating ideas from Brown University’s Code Bubbles project into Visual Studio.
This is what you can do in this version of Debugger Canvas:
- Step into methods on a canvas using the debugger
- Use the normal debugger features in the canvas
- Share a canvas as an XPS image
- Take snapshots of local variables so you can make comparisons as you step through code multiple times
- Add related methods to the canvas using Go to Definition and Find All References
Legend: – I am very happy developer, more happy face indicates that I am more happy.
There is a nice video showcasing the use and features. Definitely give it a try guys.
Courtesy: Microsoft DevLabs & Brown University
Related Posts
Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Azure: Achieving Higher Reliability with AKS and Essential Tools- Mastering DevSecOps: Key Metrics and Strategies for Success
- An Introduction to DevSecOps: Unlocking Success with Real-World Examples
- What is Landing Zone in Azure? How to implement it via Terraform
- GitOps with a comparison between Flux and ArgoCD and which one is better for use in Azure AKS
- Private Kubernetes cluster in AKS with Azure Private Link