Tutorial/Manual how to create Visualizer in autoexp.dat - c++

Question

I have some C++ datatypes for which I would like to improve the debugging experience in my team. I therefore want to create a custom visualizer in the autoexp.dat file. The [AutoExpand] section doesn't seem sufficient, so I started to look at [Visualizer]. I found this website with some explanations, but is there any comprehensive reference/manual/tutorial? I don't get the difference between $c and $e, for example. I already succeeded in displaying some basic information, but I feel like there's so much more to know...
Do you know any good resource?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Appears this is already commented above but someone coming to this question would not necessarily read the comments and so might miss the great tutorial available on the boost site:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/DebuggerVisualizers
Also
http://mariusbancila.ro/blog/2007/04/06/tweaking-autoexpdat-for-custom-types-in-vs2005/
http://www.idigitalhouse.com/Blog/?p=83
http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/how-to-set-up-visual-studio-debugger-visualizers
http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=172

Answer 2

Below is an example of visualizer for boost::tuple. It should be fairly easy to follow:
boost::tuples::tuple<*>{
; Show as (11, 22, 33, ... })
preview (
#(
"("
, $e.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, ", "
, $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, ")"
)
)
children (
#(
0: $e.head
, 1: $e.tail.head
, 2: $e.tail.tail.head
, 3: $e.tail.tail.tail.head
, 4: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, 5: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, 6: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, 7: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, 8: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
, 9: $e.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.tail.head
)
)
}