Question

In my code base I have several instances of long variables that store a date (the number of days since a specific day).

Is there a way to create a visualizer in VS2010 so that when debugging I can get the actual date next to the long value?
I can’t find much documentation on the visualizers besides basic stuff. Specifically:

Is it possible to create visualizers for integral types? (and keep the initial value visible)

Is it possible to do some small computations in the visualizer ? (I need to compute a string that corresponds to the date that my long refers to)

Answer 1

I would create a visualiser for a this struct:

struct DaysAfter
{
    long mDays;
};

Then c-cast what you need to this type in the debugger.

*(DaysAfter*)&this->m_date