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Support for HideRawView on Expand node #1458
Description
I'm currently building a compiler and it would be nice to hide the raw views so I can hide the duplicate info. This is supported on Visual Studio, so this is a request for feature parity.
My current natvis looks similar to this which makes all DataTypes produce 2 RawViews for every single variable.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AutoVisualizer xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/vstudio/debugger/natvis/2010">
<Type Name="DataType">
<DisplayString>{{{type}}}</DisplayString>
<Expand HideRawView="1">
<ExpandedItem Condition="type == DataType::INT">(DataTypeInt*)this,nd</ExpandedItem>
</Expand>
</Type>
<Type Name="DataTypeInt">
<Expand HideRawView="1">
<Item Name="type">type</Item>
<Item Name="castable">castable</Item>
<Item Name="constant">constant</Item>
<Item Name="Width">Width</Item>
<Item Name="Signedness">Signedness</Item>
</Expand>
</Type>
</AutoVisualizer>
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geometrian commentedon Jan 7, 2026
+1 on this. The docs indeed tell us to report feature parity issues here. This very simple (yet common and important!) Natvis feature appears not to be implemented as of VSCode 1.107.1. Please implement it!
Support HideRawView in Natvis (#1551)
sean-mcmanus commentedon Apr 15, 2026
ookami125 A fix is available in the C/C++ extension 1.32.0 pre-release: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/releases/tag/v1.32.0 .