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I've written an Debugger Visualizer for Html Agility Pack (others will follow): http://www.crawler-lib.net/visual-studio-debugger-visualizers

I know it wasn't possible to deploy visualizers as VSIX before: Deploy debug visualizer as a VSIX extension

But they have shown that Visual Studio 2012+ provides new opportunities to do this, at least for nativs /C++: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Writing-graphical-debugger-a17e3d75

Aside from this blog post and a lot of projects using this technique for nativs, I wasn't able to reproduce this for my visualizer. Does anybody know how to do this in VS 2012/2013 or at least additional information about the new opportunities in VS2012/2013 beyond this block post.

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  • Could you not launch your extension, and do a file copy to the correct folder, then prompt for a VS restart? – ErikEJ Mar 03 '15 at 08:55
  • I've thought about this, but it is very ugly. The nativs visualizers don't need that step. If nothing helps I will eventually provide an MSI based installer. – Thomas Maierhofer Mar 03 '15 at 13:56
  • "Very" ugly is probably a strong word – ErikEJ Mar 03 '15 at 14:22
  • Ok, maybe not ugly enough to think about it (seriously) – Thomas Maierhofer Mar 03 '15 at 16:43
  • A little late to the party, but AFAICT as long as the user doesn't have the visualizer open, even if the user is in the middle of a debugging session, there's no need to restart Visual Studio. This applies even if the user previously opened the visualizer in the current debugging session. @ErikEJ – Zev Spitz Aug 12 '19 at 01:52

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