Can I use .natvis file to always display uintptr_t as hex?

Question

I'm probably just not searching well enough, but its unclear to me how (or if its possible) to specify that the variable should be displayed in a particular way. All the examples are structs or classes with member variables, but uintptr_t has none.

Is it?

Answer 1

As the MSDN docs say

Note
Natvis customizations work with classes and structs, but not typedefs.

uintptr_t is a typedef unsigned __int64 uintptr_t;.

So no, this is not possible in Visual Studio.

You can of course wrap the uintptr_t in your own struct/class and then write a natvis visualizer for your struct/class, displaying the contained uintptr_t as hex.