STL Data Display If you ever need to debug code that uses Standard Template Library (STL) containers, this new feature in Visual Studio 2005 will dramatically improve your ability to visualize the data. Looking at STL containers while in the debugger could be a painful experience in the past, because the actual data is encapsulated within internal structures. Visual Studio 2005 allows you to view the data in an innovative new way, thanks to additional logic that enables the debugger to delve deeper into the STL types. Visual Studio 2005 uses a meta-language that lets you define exactly how to display complex types, and it includes support for all the common STL types. This means that rather than just exposing the internals of the STL container, now the debugger can create for you a truly useful visualization of the data that structure contains. View the data contained in STL structures using the smarter new debugger watch window in Visual Studio 2005