Support Debugger Text Visualizer

[HypeillingerChillinger]

Is there a text visualizer like in Visual Studio that shows a string in the debugger with carriage return?

[gregg-miskelly]

No.

I am not sure if it would be possible to do this in in a VS Code extension, or if this would need to be done in VS Code itself. But I will leave the issue here for now.

[terryaney]

Would be great, especially for XElement and JsonNode objects.

[janaka]

I opened a discussion about this #7807

If anybody can point me point me in the direction where the code for the current string visualizer exists even that would be helpful.

[gregg-miskelly]

For text visualizers (ex: plain text, HTML, json, etc), probably the C# extension has no role. Instead, microsoft/vscode#197287 would need to be completed, and then it could work for all languages.

For non-text visualizers (something analogous to Visual Studio's custom .NET Visualizer framework), more work would be needed by at least the C# extension, and possible also VS Code.