IDE

Overview

The Beef IDE is specially designed for working for Beef, but includes a general-purpose debugger, suitable for debugging a native application written in any language.

IDE features

• Autocompletion
• Refactoring tools - symbol rename, fixits, go to definition, find references, etc
• Navigation tools - class view, dropdown member list, open file in workspace, find in files, etc
• Hot code changes
• Spell checker
• Built-in code testing
• Code reformatting
• Program self-debugging API (ie: requesting profiling)

General debugger features

• Launch external executables or attach to existing process
• Utilize native system debug information (ie: PDB files on Windows)
• Windows minidump loading
• Symbol server and source server support
• Inline debug info support (properly viewing stack traces with inlined methods, step in/out of inlined methods, etc)
• Debug visualizers (built-in definitions for many C++ STL types)
  
• Autocomplete while typing debug expressions
• Step filters for stepping over “uninteresting” functions
• Conditional breakpoints
• Memory breakpoints
• Memory viewer
• Disassembly view
• Profiler