Microsoft.DebuggerCanvas installation problem

Question

I have vs 2010 professional but when try to install the plugin. it shows "This extension is not installable on any currently installed products"

Answer 1

 You need VS 2010 Ultimate SP1

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SSN "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things." : Albert Einstein

Answer 2

Any chance that this will be part of VS Professional? Some of the features might be turned off, but it seems like a good fit.

Answer 3

Thanks for the feedback.  We would love to make Debugger Canvas available to a wider audience, but as Soma says on his blog, Debugger Canvas is built on top of Visual Studio Ultimate so that we could re-use the underlying technology for the Dependency Diagrams to identify and display the right fragments on the canvas.  This re-use is what made it possible for us to release an out-of-band power tool in an efficient manner on top of Visual Studio 2010.  It's unlikely that we'll be able to make this version of the power tool available in Pro, but please let us know if you'd like to see this kind of user experience built directly "in the box" as part of Visual Studio. 

In the mean time, if you don’t have Visual Studio Ultimate then you still have two options to try Debugger Canvas for free:

1) Install the free Visual Studio Ultimate Trial, or
2) Install the free Virtual Machine containing Visual Studio Ultimate.

The second option is probably the most convenient since Visual Studio Ultimate is already pre-installed on the machine. All you need to do is copy the Debugger Canvas VSIX into the virtual machine and install it.

Thanks!

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Kael Rowan | Research Software Design Engineer | Human Interactions in Programming | Microsoft Research

Answer 4

We would indeed love to have some of the functionality of Debugger Canvas enabled in VS2010 Pro. Any news on that front? 

 

Thanks, your time is much appreciated.

Answer 5

No news there, unfortunately.

Thanks,

--Jens