Debugger not printing nice object names

In visual studio, when you look at UObjects, UClasses, etc... it prints out that name.

In Rider it just shows that it's a class of type UObject, or AActor, or and there's no nice way to see the name of it at a glance.  This makes it especially hard to deal with UClass references.

There are probably other missing debugger visualizers.

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Supporting an analog of the ue4 visualizers that Visual Studio uses is very important.  I quite like Rider for writing code and the clean UI, but debugging is a struggle right now in UE4.

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UE4 natvis should be taken by Rider's debugger automatically and should work to some extend now. But let us check the issue and come back to you here.

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I also noticed object names are missing. This makes debugging with Rider pretty much impossible for me, currently. Please make this a priority for Unreal feature dev!

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There are several known issues related to this and they eventually will be fixed.

First one - https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-20203 - is about "Inheritable" attribute from natvis DSL that we do not support yet due some technical limitations in LLDB.

Second one is the bug with FName vizualizer - https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-43496 - which I haven't reproduced even once yet.

 

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