VD Debugging static variables and such symbols missing

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 16.09.2015 03:22, Prudence wrote:
>
> Also, it would be nice if we can expand nested arrays. Currently the
> watch of an array/aa will just expand a generic string [length, ptr] but
> can't be expanded any further. This requires us to have to add another
> watch that lets us go further down the tree.
>
> We should be able to simply expand any depth of a multi nested array as
> we want(until we run out of arrays).
>

Inspecting arrays works with the mago debug engine.

The default VS debug engine uses a visualization description language 
that just doesn't work with D type syntax.

You can switch the VS debug engine back to an older version by enabling 
"native edit and continue" in the global debugging options. This debug 
engine supports visualization macros in autoexp.dat. Visual D adds 
display macros for strings and arrays into this file.