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Visual Studio: Alive - See what your code does as your write it!

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Tools and practiceProgramming languagesC# and .NETVim, Emacs and editorsDebugging

Josh Varty demonstrates Alive, a Visual Studio extension that provides real-time visual feedback and execution paths for C# code.

Subscribe for more content: vid.io/xqZ4 Check out our other videos: vid.io/xqZ9 Is it possible to see what your code will do as you write it? Yes, it is, with Alive. Alive is a plugin for Visual Studio that shows you exactly what your code does, as you write it. In this episode, Josh Varty demonstrates Alive, how it works and explains the concepts behind it. comealive.io/ twitter.com/ThisIsJoshVarty

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What people say. Engineers discuss it as an early example of visual debugging extensions, comparing it to newer VS Code implementations.

u/VanderStackin r/programming • Recommends

On “I Made an Extension for Visual Debugging in VS Code”

The idea isn't new, however VS Code lacked the API hooks required for this implementation until recently. A similar idea from a product called Alive was around years ago (link to this video and I've seen references to visual debugging for a long time. Personally I hope this can be easily extended due to integrating into VS Code and being open source, because it's insane this functionality hasn't been built out by the community over the past decade or two.
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u/VanderStackin r/programming • Recommends

On “I Made an Extension for Visual Debugging in VS Code”

Wow this is amazing! I appreciate you releasing the source, there was a similar project called alive some years back (link to this video which provided something similar but was closed source and was a plug-in for the full Visual Studio, which was bought out by Microsoft and then never saw the light of day again, and I really like the idea of forking what you have here and using it as a starting point to try to fill in the missing functionality. Thanks!
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