CSLA Visualizer

meierk posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008

About a year ago I ran across a Visual Studio 2005 Visualizer for CSLA objects.  I have since rebuilt my machine and have lost the visualizer.  Since my google searches are not turning up anything I thought I would ask here.  Anyone know where I can find this Visualizer?

Thx,
Kevin

whelzer replied on Thursday, September 25, 2008

Is this it?

http://www.cslafactory.net/

meierk replied on Thursday, September 25, 2008

Not sure.  I remember looking at this around the same time I found the visualizer, but I cannot find any reference to the visualizer on the CSLA Factory site.  I don't like to install new software on my production machine unless I completely trust the vendor so I will have to build a VM to install it.  If anyone knows for sure that the visualizer in the the CSLA Factory install, please let me know as I won't get to the VM for a few days.

Thx,
Kevin

Wbmstrmjb replied on Thursday, September 25, 2008

I think you are looking for something else.  I have CSLA Factory and it pretty new.  It is a DSL tool that generates CSLA objects.  I am not sure what you're referring to, but I don't think it's this.

meierk replied on Thursday, September 25, 2008

Just to clarify, a Visual Studio visualizer is just a debugging tool and when available, is represented by a magnifying glass.  There is a framework for writing your own visualizers and someone has written one for CSLA objects.  What is does is display a dialog of the CSLA object in a meaningful way so that you don't have to drill down through list after list when debugging your objects.  With the CSLA visualizer, I easily view the values for all properties of my CSLA object.  Of course there is much more info in the CSLA visualizer than properties, but you probably get the idea.

Hope that helps.

Kevin

whelzer replied on Friday, September 26, 2008

Sounds very useful, please post the link should you find it again.

renegrin replied on Monday, January 12, 2009

Was this ever found again?

RockfordLhotka replied on Monday, January 12, 2009

All the tools I know about are at www.lhotka.net/cslanet/codegen.aspx.

 

SeanD replied on Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Hi Kevin,

Sounds like it could be this: http://www.gnomzsoftware.com/viewpoints/ 

Also, there's a Codeplex project called Sculpture, which is similar in nature to this. Could it be that.

Hope these help.

Regards,

Sean.