aberus / imagevisualizer

A debug visualizer for Visual Studio that allows you to visually view the graphic content of images during debugging.

Hi there, I'm Aleksander Berus 🦁

I'm a full time software engineer, a tech enthusiast and previously a co-founder of tech startup. I enjoy building web and mobile apps. I write, delete and debug C# code, script Powershell packages. In my spare time I build Visual Studio extension.

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imagevisualizer's Issues

Simple solution for non .NET images

For non .NET strings, for instance, if the ToString() method is defined, you can see the text in the debugger even if it is not a string.
It would be nice for this tool to automatically call a method ToBitmap() which returns a Bitmap and shows it automatically if such method is defined, even if it is not a bitmap and that does not require any library.

Never gets updated

in VS 2019 it always says 0.7.0 version and always propouses to download 0.8.0 version
you download it, install and all again - 0.7.0 and available 0.8.0 update endless

A bit more info to show

Just a nice-to-have feature if you mind.
It would be nice to show the image dimensions in the visualizer window.
Maybe a bit more like pixelformat, color depth, etc.

Add support for VS 2022

The debug visualizer does currently not work with VS 2022, because the ImageForm.UIFont property references the wrong version for dteProgID.

Possible to view images inline?

Hello, I saw your extension in the marketplace while searching for an extension capable of displaying an inline image preview, I would like to ask if you know any?

I asked on SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73508446/extension-to-support-inline-image-preview

Feature Request: Color Support

Will it be possible to support System.Drawing.Color as well as System.Drawing.Bitmap?

Can it support C++/CLI mode?

I just searched from your app in the market and found it interesting.
However, it can only support C# environment.
When I load image in .Net framwork under C++/CLI environment, it said it can't load this viewer.
Can you please develop to support for C++/CLI mode?
Thanks.

not working in vs2022

No longer works in VS 2022 . Does not appear in list of installed extensions

Works in VS 2019

Doesn't work in .NET Core 2.2

ImageSharp support

Hi

It could be great if you could provide support for SixLabors.Imagesharp image formats.

Publish VSIX installer on marketplace

Please provide a VSIX installer on the Visual Studio marketplace.
At the moment only the .msi of version 0.3 is available, but I see from the changelog that you already created the VSIX one for version 0.4

Where download version with VS2010 support?

Because we use it...

Support for Xamarin.Forms.Image

Can you please add Xamarin.Forms.Image support?

Zoom for very small images

I have a bitmap that has the size 3 pixels by 3 pixels. I was unable to zoom with the mouse wheel. Is this not supported? Or maybe I am not doing this correctly?

Thanks

Does not work in VS 2019 and .Net Core project

An unhandled exception of type 'System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException' was thrown by the custom visualizer component in the process being debugged.

Type 'System.Drawing.Bitmap' in Assembly 'System.Drawing.Common, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51' is not marked as serializable.

at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.WriteObjectInfo.InitSerialize(Object obj, ISurrogateSelector surrogateSelector, StreamingContext context, SerObjectInfoInit serObjectInfoInit, IFormatterConverter converter, ObjectWriter objectWriter, SerializationBinder binder)
at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.Serialize(Object graph, BinaryFormatterWriter serWriter)
at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize(Stream serializationStream, Object graph)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.VisualizerObjectSource.Serialize(Stream serializationStream, Object target)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.VisualizerObjectSource.GetData(Object target, Stream outgoingData)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DebuggeeSide.Impl.ClrCustomVisualizerDebuggeeHost.GetData(Object visualizedObject)

No longer working in Visual Studio 2022 17.8.1

After recently updating Visual Studio 2022 to version 17.8.1 from 17.4, the debugger visualizer no longer works.

Here is a more recent error message: