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Array Visualizer extension

Array Visualizer extension

- [Instructor] When you work with array data, it can be useful to look at that data in a visual fashion. Most of us don't want to write a user interface just to view that data, though, so what we'll look at in this tip is an extension that lets us see the data in a visual way. It's called the array visualizer, and this one works, I believe, up to Visual Studio 2015, and I've already it on my machine, so I went online. I searched in the gallery for array visualizer and clicked the install button, and now it's available. So now I can go to my code, put a break point here on this last curly brace, (mumbles) nine, and then start the application and debug it. Next step is to go to the debug menu, and look for the array visualizer. There it is. This brings up another window in Visual Studio. This is what it looks like, and it's looked through all my local variables and found any variable that's of type array, and it's listing it here. So now I can click on it to see a visualization of the…

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