D on Visual Studio?

[Ary Manzana]

As Robert Fraser said, you should try Descent. It displays the contents 
of all variables, and in a nice format if you are using ddbg (i.e.: 
strings are shown as strings, nested members appear, etc.). To do that, 
i advice you to read: 
http://dsource.org/projects/descent/wiki/DebuggingPrograms

(also check the screenshots)

Martin Fuchs escribió:
>> There is DDBG that works under code blocks. Most of item a is available 
>> and much of item b is there but not integrated (expression work but aren't 
>> available from the IDE, watches don't work etc.)
>>
>> There is room for improvment but it's a start
> 
> Well, I tried Code::Blocks and the DDBG integration with the current 
> development snapshot.
> First of all I must say, I had some hassles setting up the environment to 
> build and debug a test program:
> 
> - There was missing the -g linker option in the default debug settings of 
> Code::Blocks.
> 
> - To configure the debugger I had to specify the GDB wrapper script 
> "ddbg_gdb.bat" instead of "ddbg.exe" itself in code block's toolchain 
> configuration.
> 
> 
> OK, now I can build D programs and launch thd ddbg debugger in Code::Blocks.
> But what I am still missing is:
> 
> You can't see the contents of all varaiables. For example it isn't even 
> possible to display strings and array variables in the watch window.
> This is what I described in my initial post. So again: What exactly is the 
> problem - Is there only missing some extension to display complex types in 
> the debugger or is the information completely missing in the debug 
> information generated by the compiler? If it's only a debugger display 
> program, it's only a matter of time when the goal will be reached. In the 
> second case it might require a completely new debug info format. So the 
> compiler *and* the debugger would require some rewrite. 
> 
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