Automate nested variable dump in VS2015 debugger

Question

Currently I'm looking into a 'minidump with heap'. I would like to write a unit test reproducing the crash, but therefore I need the data that lead to the crash.

Using the Visual Studio debugger, I can 'watch' the offending data structures, but they are quite big (>10k objects) and complex (using lists of lists of...) and I would love to dump these data into some readable format somehow.

The structure looks like this

struct Bottom {
   int x, y, z;
};
struct Mid {
    std::list<Bottom> bottoms;
};
struct Top {
    std::list<Mid> mids;
};

Is there a way I can write a macro/extension/... to extract e.g. all x, y, z data from the heap dump?

Is there another debugger that can accomplish this?

Answer 1

Actually you could view the data structures in VS debugger Watch window, but it was complex as your requirement. If so, one idea is that you could create custom view of native objects, so you could view it easily even if use the same debugging Watch window.