PowerShell Debug Visualizer

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dfinke — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:09:43 GMT

Project Description
Using PowerShell, you interact with .NET objects during debugging in the Visual Studio IDE.

The PowerShell Visualizer injects objects, presents a scripting window. And more....

Decorate your classes like so:
[DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(PoSHVisualizer.PoSHVisualizer))]
[Serializable]

Hit a breakpoint, launch a PowerShell session and operate on that object.

Create a custom visualizer by inheriting from the PoSHVisualizer.
Inject variables you want into the PowerShell environment.

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE for VS 2008 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll
Add the using statement using System.Diagnostics;

The project TestCustomDV in the download is an example.

Out of the box, the editing area has two ways to execute PowerShell commands that have been typed in.
The default is immediate mode. As you type, the script is immediately executed. You can toggle this by either
right clicking the edit area and clicking on the context menu or use the shortcut keys Ctrl-Shift-I.

UPDATED RELEASE: PoSH Debugger Visualizer (Dec 13, 2007)

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:57:51 GMT

|| Zip File || Content ||
| PoSHVisualizer.zip | VS 2005 DLLs |
| PoSHVisualizer2008.zip | VS 2008 DLLs |
| PoSHDebugVisualizer2008 Source.zip | VS 2008 Source for the visualizer |

CLOSED ISSUE: Using the Debug Visualizer in VS 2008

dfinke — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:26:53 GMT

System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'PoSHVisualizer.PoSHVisualizer' to type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DialogDebuggerVisualizer'.
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DebugViewerShim.ManagedShim.DelegatedHost.CreateViewer(IntPtr hwnd, HostServicesHelper hsh, SafeProxyWrapper proxy)
Comments: Updated to work with 2008

UPDATED RELEASE: PoSH Debugger Visualizer (Dec 13, 2007)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:17:33 GMT

PoSHVisualizer.zip - VS 2005 DLLs
PoSHVisualizer2008.zip - VS 2008 DLLs
PoSHDebugVisualizer2008 Source.zip - VS 2008 Source for the visualizer

UPDATED RELEASE: PoSH Debugger Visualizer (Dec 13, 2007)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:16:32 GMT

PoSHVisualizer.zip - VS 2005 DLLs
PoSHVisualizer2008.zip - VS 2008 DLLs

UPDATED RELEASE: PoSH Debugger Visualizer (Dec 13, 2007)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:12:52 GMT

Release Change Set 3173.

The ZIP file contains the stand-alone Dlls.

CREATED RELEASE: PoSH Debugger Visualizer for VS2008 (Dec 13, 2007)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:09:00 GMT

Zip contains stand-alone DLLs

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:55:38 GMT

Project Description
Using PowerShell, you interact with .NET objects during debugging in the Visual Studio IDE.

The PowerShell Visualizer injects objects and presents a scripting window.

And more....

Decorate your classes like so:
[DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(PoSHVisualizer.PoSHVisualizer))]
[Serializable]

Hit a breakpoint, launch a PowerShell session and operate on that object.

Create a custom visualizer by inheriting from the PoSHVisualizer.
Inject variables you want into the PowerShell environment.

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll
Add the using statement using System.Diagnostics;

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:54:58 GMT

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll
Add the using statement using System.Diagnostics;

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:54:30 GMT

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll
Include this using statement using System.Diagnostics;

CREATED ISSUE: Using the Debug Visualizer in VS 2008

dfinke — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:53:03 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:50:55 GMT

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll

Source code checked in

dfinke — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:24:53 GMT

added to example program

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:18:36 GMT

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll

The project TestCustomDV in the download is an example.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:31:12 GMT

Project Description
The PowerShell Debugger Visualizer presents a scripting window that allows you to enter
PowerShell commands which can interact with the .NET object you selected and more.

Decorate your classes like so
[DebuggerVisualizer(typeof(PoSHVisualizer.PoSHVisualizer))]
[Serializable]

When you hit a breakpoint you can launch into a PowerShell session and operate on that object.

You can take it a step further and create a custom visualizer based on the PoSHVisualizer.
Enabling you to inject variables of your choosing into the PowerShell environment before the visualizer dialog displays.

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll

The project TestCustomDV in the download is an example.

RELEASED: PoSH Debugger Visualizer (Dec 04, 2007)

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:29:28 GMT

Release Change Set 3173.

The ZIP file contains the stand-alone Dlls.

UPDATED RELEASE: PoSH Debugger Visualizer (Dec 04, 2007)

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:29:28 GMT

Release Change Set 3173.

The ZIP file contains the stand-alone Dlls.

CREATED RELEASE: PoSH Debugger Visualizer (Dec 04, 2007)

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:28:37 GMT

Release Change Set 3173.

The ZIP file contains the stand-alone Dlls.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:10:37 GMT

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll

The project TestCustomDV in the download can run as an example.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

dfinke — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:06:01 GMT

Setup

Download
Copy these files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

PoSHEditor.dll
PoSHEditor.pdb
PoSHVisualizer.dll
PoSHVisualizer.pdb

Add a reference to PoSHVisualizer.dll
Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.dll

The project TestCustomDV in the download can run as an example.