Try to visualize a List and you will see that there is a private value _items, so you can see its items. Note that in arrays, the visualizer shows every nested objcet. I want to use something similar for ICollection (or IList), IDictionary etc. These are VS visualizers for array and multidimentional arrays: Static string ConvertToVisualizableDictionary(this IDictionary dictionary) If (item != null) list = item.ToString() Static string ConvertToVisualizableList(this IList collection) String visualizable2 = dic.ConvertToVisualizableDictionary() String visualizable = collection.ConvertToVisualizableList()

collection = new StringCollection() Ĭollection.AddRange(new string ) This is something I thought about: using

Or for Dictionaries show to lists visualizers for keys and for values.Īny ideas how to implement or even how to start? StringCollection to List(Of String) or List) and then I will be able to see it in the visualizer. Then like the simple visualizer (without dialog I mean the ususal string visualizer that appears when hovering the variable, see image below), I want to make my custom text, I want to cast the collection to its type's list (I.E. I was trying to create a visualizer for IDictionary or ICollection

How to create a visualizer