sergey-visual-studio/dpack

Code Browser displays nothing in large scale C++ solution.

jakesgit opened this issue · 2 comments

jakesgit commented

Hi, firstly thanks for the providing this great extension for free. Kudos!

DPack in our large C++ solutions at work fails to show anything when opening any of the Code Browser windows. The windows will open, but return no results. It is always just a blank white window:

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I would expect to see a match in the scenario pictured above.

It may be worth noting that the file browser works perfectly.

Here is dpack log:
DPack.log
Project and file names were modified as the company I work for is in sensitive field.

System info:

Windows 10 Pro x64 ver 1903
Visual Studio Pro ver 16.4.5
DPack Rx ver 4.0.0.32 Beta

When I create a small dummy project, the feature works as intended:

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Sadly I cannot share the problematic projects as they are not open source.

Please let me know if I can provide any more info.

Thanks.

sergey-visual-studio commented

Hi Jake,

Is there any way you could add that file you're having problems with to a brand new project to see if it's still happening or not? That could be a good started. Unfortunately, C++ is not my area of expertise so I'd need to rely on repro case unfortunately.

I do remember one outstanding issue related to C++ and Visual Studio extensibility, which DPack relies on to discover all the file members. The issue, which is still unresolved, is with nested C++ namespaces. Anything declared within nested C++ namespace isn't gonna be exposed through VS extensibility model and thus won't show up Code Browser. Please confirm if that's applicable.

Thanks.

sergey-visual-studio commented

Closing. Feel free to re-open when/if you get more information. Thanks.