I suppose one reason is that images can be stored in many different ways in memory. For OpenCV images in C++ the Visual Studio extension Image Watch is quite ni

I suppose one reason is that images can be stored in many different ways in memory. For OpenCV images in C++ the Visual Studio extension Image Watch is quite nice, I think it's been around for more than 15 years: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualCPPTeam.ImageWatchForVisualStudio2022 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualCP... There's also a recent extension called Image Preview for path references: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/working-with-images-just-got-easier-in-visual-studio/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/working-with-ima...