I want to visualize an object with a custom Debugger Visualizer in VS2010. But the object of that class does not have Serializable property. Since the Source code is written and maintained for long, I don't want to change the class to Serializable for Debugger Visualizer purpose only.
Can someone tell me how to achieve this?
I am here attaching the code with which i achieved what i asked in the question using Json.net from Newtonsoft.
namespace MyCustomVisualizer
{
public class MyObjectSource : VisualizerObjectSource
{
public override void GetData(object target, Stream outgoingData)
{
try
{
byte[] byteArray = JsonHelper.Serialize(target);
outgoingData.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
}
catch (Exception exp)
{
MessageBox.Show(exp.Message, "VisualizerObjectSource Error");
}
}
}
public class MyVisualizer : DialogDebuggerVisualizer
{
override protected void Show(IDialogVisualizerService windowService, IVisualizerObjectProvider objectProvider)
{
try
{
string _str = null;
Stream _stream = objectProvider.GetData();
if (_stream != null && _stream.Length > 0)
{
object _obj = null;
_obj = JsonHelper.Deserialize(_stream); // Here i get the object i want
// ^^^
// Now add ur code to visualize the object in your way.
/* This is only to verify the object data before visualizing.
if (_obj != null)
{
_str = JsonHelper.ObjectToString(_obj);
MessageBox.Show(_str, "Show");
}
*/
}
// Show the grid with the list
windowService.ShowDialog();
}
catch (Exception exp) { MessageBox.Show(exp.Message, "Visualizer Error"); }
finally
{
}
}
}
#region JsonHelper Class
public static class JsonHelper
{
public static byte[] Serialize(object _Object)
{
MemoryStream _MemoryStream = new MemoryStream();
JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();
serializer.NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore;
serializer.TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.Auto;
try
{
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(_MemoryStream))
using (JsonWriter writer = new JsonTextWriter(sw))
{
serializer.Serialize(writer, _Object);
}
}
catch (Exception exp)
{
MessageBox.Show(exp.Message, "Serialize Error");
}
return _MemoryStream.ToArray();
}
public static object Deserialize(Stream _ByteArray)
{
Object _object = new Object();
JsonSerializer serializer = new JsonSerializer();
serializer.NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore;
serializer.TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.Auto;
try
{
StreamReader sw = new StreamReader(_ByteArray);
JsonReader reader = new JsonTextReader(sw);
_object = serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
catch (Exception exp)
{
MessageBox.Show(exp.Message, "Deserialize Error");
}
return _object;
}
public static string ObjectToString(object _object)
{
string _str = string.Empty;
JsonSerializerSettings _jsonSerializeSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings();
_jsonSerializeSettings.NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore;
_jsonSerializeSettings.TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.Auto;
_str = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(_object, Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented, _jsonSerializeSettings);
return _str;
}
}
#endregion
}