Debugger Canvas and Code Bubbles

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/debuggercanvas

 

My good friend, Clint Edmonson, sent me a link to an article about the Debugger Canvas recently (https://blog.agafonov.net.ua/post/2011/06/14/Debugger-canvas.aspx).  It’s an add-in for Visual Studio that is our version of Code Bubbles.  I actually read about this idea last year and really, really liked the concept.  For those more academically oriented here is a link to the paper introducing the idea entitled “Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments”:

https://www.eecs.ucf.edu/isuelab/publications/pubs/ICSE0289.pdf

 

I think the idea absolutely has merit.  But that begs the question:  WHAT exactly IS the idea?  This video will tell you everything you need to know about the most awesome Debugger Canvas:

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• Anonymous
  June 15, 2011
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• Anonymous
  June 15, 2011
  I kinda liked it for a second, but you don't get the same inspection intellisense when hovering over variables and such while debugging.  You have to specifically do a quickwatch to get that info.  No likes.

• Anonymous
  June 15, 2011
  Yeah I agree Will there are defintiely some missing pieces.  My understanding is this is pre-pre-pre-Beta and I suspect they are going to implement more features into it to bring it on par with the current experience eventually. Z