Is there an Expression Tree Visualizer for VS 2012?

Question

Is there an Expression Tree Visualizer for VS 2012? Have had a search but have found the VS 2008 popping up all over the place, and the new VS 2012 doesn't have a Visualizers folder in the installation directory. Or, am I missing something that I should be able to switch on?

Answer 1

What you can do is fix the visualizer for vs 2010 so it works in 2012. This is very easy. Just get the source from this project : http://exprtreevisualizer.codeplex.com/ and change the DebuggerVisualizers assembly reference of the ExpressionTreeViewer project to :

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0\Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll

So that it works with the newest version of vs2012. After that copy the results to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers

and it should work

Answer 2

No but you have DebugView, in debug mode, there's a proxy for the class with the same properties and an added one DebugView. It's text like. Also Mono.Linq.Expressions has a text writer for expressions that makes C# code, check it out.

Answer 3

I seem to make bad *.dll's when this issue re-occurred for me. I started a GitHub repo with the solution. I included a built and the compiled *.dll which can be downloaded by clicking "View Raw" on this file.

Copy this *.dll to your visualizer directory of choice. I use C:\Users[CurrentUser]\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Visualizers

Answer 4

(Disclaimer: I am the author of the visualizer in question.)

I've written a debugging visualizer for Visual Studio: