VS immediate window “identifier undefined” when querying DLL functions w/ namespace

Question

I have some DLL exported functions that I'm trying to call from inside of VS2017 immediate window. The functions in the C++ header look like this:

namespace ma
{
    bool MODEL_DECLSPEC ClearParameter();
    bool MODEL_DECLSPEC GetResult();
          :
}

However, when I stop at a breakpoint in my code and type into the immediate window

ma::GetResult()

It returns

 identifier "ma" is undefined

I can call functions in the "std" namespace but not in my own namespace?

EDIT: I did some more tests and the immediate window interprets the "ma" namespace fine and calls my exported DLL function when my breakpoint is within the "ma" namespace scope inside the DLL. That's pretty limiting for debugging, so I'm sure I'm missing something?

Answer 1

Found out it had nothing to do with namespace. The native debugger won't look outside of its current module: "Immediate window can not execute a function exported by a dll"

There are some workarounds discussed here