Make natvis find winmds from the WinMD Reference - #1628
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Moved to draft because I found that some environments may not display the visualization of types in WAS. |
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Fix microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#2809.
Currently, the VSIX extension only looks for winmd files from the exe directory and the system directory, making the visualization useless. In particular, metadata from the WindowsAppSDK was also not taken into consideration.
This patch passes the information of all winmd references to the binary through MSBuild, which is then parsed by the VSIX plugin to obtain the paths of the referenced winmd files. All of this is automatic.
All winmds are loaded lazily. When looking up a type, the extension first collects the paths of all winmd files, and then looks for the appropriate file based on the namespace of the type. Once a namespace has been looked up, it is recorded to avoid repeating a futile load the next time.