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Port suppliers

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In the debugger architecture, a port supplier:

  • Is contained by a server and provides ports on request to that server.

  • Can add and remove ports from the containing server.

  • Can enumerate all the ports it has supplied to the server.

  • Is represented by an IDebugPortSupplier2 interface, which is registered with Visual Studio through the registry. This interface can be obtained by calling GetPortSupplier.

    Visual Studio provides a default port supplier and a default port. If a custom port needs to be implemented, a custom port supplier also needs to be implemented to supply those custom ports.

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