Tutorial/Manual how to create Visualizer in autoexp.dat

Question

I have some C++ datatypes for which I would like to improve the debugging experience in my team. I therefore want to create a custom visualizer in the autoexp.dat file. The

Answer 1

Appears this is already commented above but someone coming to this question would not necessarily read the comments and so might miss the great tutorial available on the boost site:

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/DebuggerVisualizers

Also

http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2007/04/06/tweaking-autoexpdat-for-custom-types-in-vs2005/

http://www.idigitalhouse.com/Blog/?p=83

http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/how-to-set-up-visual-studio-debugger-visualizers

http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=172

Answer 2

Below is an example of visualizer for boost::tuple. It should be fairly easy to follow:

boost::tuples::tuple<*>{
    ; Show as (11, 22, 33, ... })
    preview (
        #(
            "("
            , $e.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , ", "
            , $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , ")"
        )
    )   
    children (
        #(
            0: $e.head
            , 1: $e.tail.head
            , 2: $e.tail.tail.head
            , 3: $e.tail.tail.tail.head
            , 4: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , 5: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , 6: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , 7: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , 8: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
            , 9: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
        )
    )
}