Does anyone know of any set of VS evaluators ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8fwk67y3(VS.80).aspx ) that would make debugging code that uses some of the more internally complex boost constructs a bit easier? Ones I can think of that would make life easier: whatever is returned by bind smart pointers (not so bad right now actually) boost::function others? For instance, with the bind it would be nice to see simply the address of the function and an array of the arguments...with some obviously being displayed as "placeholder". The boost::function one could maybe just show the function object it stores. Currently, to get to this information you have to weed through quite a few levels of abstraction. Not saying this is bad, it's obviously necessary, but it can make debugging through these objects a bit of a hassle.