Has anyone been able to debug with VS2005?

[Bradley Smith]

Arrays can be evaluated using watch expressions. For example,
   char[] a = "abc";
     a.length is the watch expression (int)a
     a.ptr is the watch expression (char*)*((int*)(&a)+1)

You can use the format suffix on the watch expression to display the 
whole string. For example "abc" is displayed with (char*)*((int*)(&a)+1),3



Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> Actually, I only program D from within VS2005!
> 
> I use the vsplugind found on dsource, but that's only needed for building 
> right from VS. Just for debugging, you don't need anything. Compiling your 
> program using dmd -g will add the needed symbols to the obj/exe and VS will 
> understand them! Arrays are shown as 64-bit integers, but when seen in hex, 
> it's obvious what part is the count and what the pointer. Alternatively, you 
> can take the array's address and cast it to a int*.
> 
> For syntax highlighting you should add .d to the extensions list in the 
> options dialog, and let VS treat it as C++ or C#. Missing keywords can be 
> added using a text-file called usertype.dat with a keyword on each line. It 
> goes in the VS "IDE" folder, if I'm not mistaken, but better google to 
> duoble check that (no VS2005 here at home).
> 
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