Write Visual Studio visualizations using C++
Author: YexuanXiaoCreated Sep 9, 2026Updated Sep 14, 2026
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The current visualization of STL uses the built-in XML dialect, which is inflexible. The debugger actually has an API https://github.com/Microsoft/ConcordExtensibilitySamples/ that allows types to be visualized programmatically. Perhaps STL could consider adopting it. A complete example is https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt/tree/master/natvis.
Source: microsoft/STL