[WIP] Improving Visual Studio e.g. 2022 debugging experience

[GeorgeS2019]

Here tentatively list commits or issues that are ongoing to improve the experience of working with Visual Studio e.g. 2022 with Godot. Focusing especially on the NativeAOT nature of Godot after the dotnet6 merged.

Questions

• What is godot/platform/windows/godot.natvis ?
  • [Answer] Visual Studio Native debug visualization (natvis)
  • Create custom views of C++ objects in the debugger using the Natvis framework
  • [PR] Add more data structures to Natvis for Visual Studio

Open PRs

• [PR] Add external editor presets
• [PR] Print the class when using Node's print_tree()/print_tree_pretty()

[GeorgeS2019]

Natvis [Visual Studio native debug visualization (natvis)]: Custom views for native objects