Natvis support for VSCode
graghavan007 opened this issue · 2 comments
Is MIEngine support for VSCode identical to MIEngine support for Visual Studio ?
Maybe my terminology is wrong. Are all Natvis schema objects supported by Visual Studio, also supported by VSCode ?
thanks
gopal
The VS Code MIEngine and Visual Studio MIEngine are the same and use the same natvis reader.
The Visual Studio MIEngine scenarios are Linux C++ Projects, Open Folder Debugging with launch.vs.json using cppdbg, or SSH Attach.
For VS Code, this is where the launch.json has type: cppdbg
.
If you are talking about the Windows C++ Debugging scenario, it uses a different natvis reader.
I wrote the following code :
class MyClass {
public:
int myNum = 11;
std::string myString="hello";
};
Instantiated the class as: MyClass c = MyClass();
Here is my Natvis file:
<Type Name="MyClass">
<DisplayString>"Hello</DisplayString>
<Expand>
<CustomListItems>
<Variable Name="ind" InitialValue="-1" />
<Size>10</Size>
<Loop>
<Break Condition="ind == 5" />
<Exec>ind += 1</Exec>
<Item>ind,na</Item>
</Loop>
</CustomListItems>
</Expand>
</Type>
When I run this on Visual Studio/Windows I get:
a list of items [0]-[5] with values of 0-5 as expected
When I run this on VSCode/Linux/gdb, I get nothing. Only the Raw View.
We are not using the debugger to get any values from the program, so I would have expected the same output in both cases ?
What is the difference ?
Thanks much