Demonstration of Debugger Canvas - a new approach to debugging from Microsoft Research and Brown University
Kael Rowan (from Microsoft Research) and Andrew Bragdon ( Brown University ) have developed a new debugging tool for applications based on Visual Studio and the IntelliTrace debugger. This tool is called Debugger Canvas . It offers to place on the big canvas the entire history of the debugger for visual presentation, plus it offers numerous additional functions for working with code, including the IntelliTrace history.
The video below perfectly demonstrates the approach proposed by the researchers:
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The Debugger Canvas project page is available on the Microsoft Research website at this address . There you can find additional information about the project. The announcement of the project was made in this blog .
The authors report that Debugger Canvas will be available to the general public already during June 2011 on the Microsoft DevLabs website . Only the owners of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate will be able to rate its work, since only this edition contains the necessary functionality for the Debugger Canvas.