title: Visual Studio 15 - Is there a better way to view/interpret memory in the Memory Window?
body: <p>In Visual Studio 15, I am pulling up the memory window using Degug->Memory->Memory 1. In this window, I can type in either an address or an in-scope pointer while debugging to view the contents at that memory. </p>
  
  <p>For instance:</p>
  
  <pre><code>int *p; //doesn't really matter what p is, but rather what it points to
  *p = 5;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the console, I can type 'p' and it will bring up a memory table showing <code>0xaabbccdd: 05 00 00 00 ...</code></p>
  
  <p>I am working on a project which requires precise manipulation of values at memory locations, so I need to be efficient at reading these values; however, the current way in which they are displayed makes them very difficult to read. Normally, I would expect to read 5 in hexadecimal as 0x00000005, but in this format, it is much more foreign to me: the four sections are ordered in Big Endian, not Little Endian, and they are also reversed within each section. So for a more comprehensive example, <code>*p = 0x12345678</code> becomes <code>0xaabbccdd: 21 43 65 87</code> and that is incredibly cumbersome to read. Is there a way to change the format of this in Visual Studio 15?</p>