Is there a way to call the debugger's visualizer in code?

Question

Is there a way to call up visual studio's object visualization tools in my own code? say I want to be able to click something and inspect it like the debugger would if I hovered over it in code or added it to the watch?

Answer 1

I thought this might work:

var ddv = new Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers
.VisualizerDevelopmentHost(this,typeof(FormMain));

ddv.ShowVisualizer();

But it throws:

System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'Herbsta.FormMain' 
to type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.DebuggerVisualizers.DialogDebuggerVisualizer'.