How to extend the existing debug experience

[mrlacey]

Official documentation only shows how to add debugger support for entirely new languages. I can't find anything about extending the debug experience for a language that already has a debugger.

In my case, I often have file and directory names inside variables while I'm debugging C# code and I want to have an easy way of opening those files & directories.

Ideally, I want to add entries to this menu and have access to the value so that I can open it. (Screenshot taken at a random point and not representative of my actual use case.)

Currently, I have to copy the value, open an app (notepad) and then open a file and paste in the value for the file name. Or I have to open Explorer, switch to the address bar, and then paste in the value I've copied.
It might not sound like an onerous process but do it a few dozen times each day and you'll think otherwise.

Can anyone help?

[moon6969]

I want my Extension to eventually be able to snoop on variable values during debug.

When I looked into it some time back I noted this as a starting point...
EnvDTE.Debugger.CurrentStackFrame
EnvDTE.StackFrame.Locals

I'm not sure if there is a more modern way to do it witout DTE.