[Scott Nonnenberg via Duncan Mackenzie] Visualizers allow for advanced, customized viewing of data while debugging. Today’s data windows have their limitations; text-only, hierarchical, spatially constrained - not the best for viewing an image, for example. Visualizers allow you to create completely custom views using WinForms to best show the data within any managed object. Yes, unfortunately this feature will only available for the managed world.

As a general rule I’ve been trying to stay away from posting about ‘future’ versions of .NET and Visual Studio, but this (along with the XML visualizers in Whidbey) is just too damn cool.