VisualD - how to view runtime type of class in debbuger?

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 04.06.2015 14:36, Michal Minich wrote:
> Please consider code
>
> class C { int c = 1; }
> class D : C { int d = 2; }
>
> int main() {
>    C c = new D();
>    return c.d;
> }
>
> when paused in debugger on the return statement the locals windows shows
> variable c as of type C. Only way to be able to view data of D instance
> was when I used Mango engine and used locals "cast(main.D)c"
>
> This has following issues:
>   - only supported in Mango
>   - one must know the runtime type of variable, it is not displayed by
> debugger
>   - it must be manually written into watches window
>
> Is there a way
>   - to achieve the same (or better) effect using Visual Studio debugger
>   - possibility to display runtime type (without putting manually some
> string variable with type name into every class)
>
> Thank you.

The D debug engine is called mago BTW.

If you use VS2010 (or earlier) or enable the same debug engine in VS2012 
or later (by enabling "*native* Edit and Continue" in the global 
debuggerr options), the visualizer support for the Visual Studio debug 
engine shows the actual runtime class in the preview. You can also view 
it as a C++ watch "(main at D*)c" similar to mago.

Inspecting the runtime class members as part of the "c" instance similar 
to C++ is something I also like to have, but it will only be possible to 
implement in mago.