The XNAVisies project is intended to provide debug visualizers for various xna types. XNAVisies is designed for XNA 3.0 and VS 2008.

Features

Below is a list of xna types that XNAVisies has debug visualizers for ...

• Color
• Matrix
• RenderTarget2D and Texture2D (supporting the fallowing formats)
  
  • SurfaceFormat.Color
  • SurfaceFormat.Bgr32
  • SurfaceFormat.Bgra1010102
  • SurfaceFormat.Rgba32
  • SurfaceFormat.Rgb32
  • SurfaceFormat.Rgba1010102
  • SurfaceFormat.Alpha8
  • SurfaceFormat.Single
  • SurfaceFormat.Vector2
  • SurfaceFormat.Vector4

Future additions

• Vector2 and Vector3
• Stencil buffer (if that is even possible)
• The matrix visualizer command window is not yet implemented

Downloads

• XNAVisiesR1.zip (583.07 kb) (xna 3.0)
  Contains the code for XNAVisies Release 1 

Screenshots

• Release 1 screenshots
  Some screenshots from the first XNAVisies release

Installation Help

• Just copy the compiled XNAVisies.dll file into your "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers" folder and you are done.

Attribution

Very special thanks to Derek Smyth at http://dotnetslackers.com/Community/blogs/dsmyth/default.aspx
His blog post titled "Type Visualizers : Visualizing non-serializable types." helped me in figuring out how to create a debug visualizer for types that are not marked serializable.

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