Last week Josh Smith, Karl Shifflett & Andrew Smith released version 4 of their open-source Mole Visualizer for Visual Studio 2008. Visualizers are Visual Studio plugins which allow developers to view objects and data using a specialized user interface while debugging. There are a lot of great visualizers available for LINQ, XML, Datasets, … but Mole is definitely one that every Visual Studio developer should have installed. Originally Mole only targeted WPF applications, but version 4 can also be used for WinForms and WCF applications.

• More information and some screenshots can be found on my website.

• The Mole project can be found on the CodeProject website.