Debugger Visualizer

Introduction

Debugger visualizers enable advanced, customized data display while you are running your application under the Visual Studio Debugger. Today's data windows have their limitations; they are text-only, hierarchical, and spatially constrained. They are not the best way to view an image, for example.

A visualizer is associated with a particular type. Whenever a variable of that type is included in a data window like the Watch window (as shown in Figure 1) or DataTips, a little magnifying glass will be shown next to its entry. ^[1]

Emgu CV ver >= 2.0 comes with a debugger visualizer for Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 to help you quickly debug your Image Processing application. The visualizer can be used to inspect the following data types:

Image<TColor, TDepth>
Matrix<T> class
DenseHistogram class

How to Install

Download the Emgu CV binary (ver >= 2.0).

For Visual Studio 2005, copy all the .dll files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers
For Visual Studio 2008, copy all the .dll files to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers

That's it.

Using Debugger Visualizer