Can one debug HLSL on Windows Phone 8? - visual-studio-2012

The more I look around, the more it looks like this feature just isn't supported.
When I try to run the graphics diagnostics tools, it just launches the app and debugs normally. I see nothing new that is related to graphics anywhere on the screen (every button on the graphics toolbar is grayed out).
I'm surprised I wasn't able to get an answer from my search engine, but I would love guidance so I could try some other form of debugging instead.
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Apple does it a similar way:
https://developer.apple.com/safari/tools/
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Hope it helps someone, I found it useful.

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