Introducing Debugger Canvas (spatial code visualization tool)

That explains the utter lack of progress I've been seeing in Code Bubbles. I mean, they've had that demo video up for over a year, and I signed up early, and absolutely nothing since. Hopefully this doesn't mean the end of the Eclipse version of the project - I avoid both whenever possible, but at least Eclipse is open source.

I was actually one of the few people who built this while I was at MSFT. Me and a few others from the VS editor team sat down over a weekend and knocked most of it out. They've since hooked the debugger into it and made it a bit cleaner, but it's still all our code running under there :)

I'm glad they stuck with it. I shopped it around as much as I could to try and generate interest in it internally, but VS proper didn't really seem to care about it, saying that no one really wanted that experience.

A bit shortsighted, I think.

When I first saw Code Bubbles I thought it was fantastic. I'm looking forward to trying this and hoping this is a first step towards wider-spread adoption for it.

I prototyped something vaguely similar in Python, using the 3d Visual library. I would love to port this to CoffeeScript/JS + Canvas. The dream is to have zoomable user interface (like Google Earth) where you can zoom in and view one file, and zoom out to see all files. And when code is run, you can watch a highlighted path fly from file to file. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZLzmNvRI1w https://github.com/hugs/detour

This is great! Does gdb expose an API that makes building such tools possible, with a web-based UI?

very nice

That's great and all, however can't you concentrate on giving me a decent performance analyser built into _all_ version of Visual Studio?