Debugger Canvas and Code Bubbles
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/debuggercanvas
My good friend, Clint Edmonson, sent me a link to an article about the Debugger Canvas recently (https://blog.agafonov.net.ua/post/2011/06/14/Debugger-canvas.aspx). It’s an add-in for Visual Studio that is our version of Code Bubbles. I actually read about this idea last year and really, really liked the concept. For those more academically oriented here is a link to the paper introducing the idea entitled “Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments”:
https://www.eecs.ucf.edu/isuelab/publications/pubs/ICSE0289.pdf
I think the idea absolutely has merit. But that begs the question: WHAT exactly IS the idea? This video will tell you everything you need to know about the most awesome Debugger Canvas: