Koby asks – “How suitable is VS automation for doing something like printing the values of all environment variables in the debugee process”?
In fact, I just learnt how to do that.
type ‘$env=0’, either at a watch window or an immediate window.
Doesn’t get much easier than that. And unlike the commenter, it works magic for me in VS2005 too.
Ofek's Visual C++ stuff 
Heh. I had to pick the one example there happens to be a built-in debugger variable for :-)
Yeah, that was satisfying. :-)
Can you give other VS-incompetence examples? Who knows, we might learn something new still..