""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" <jetan@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Abhishek,
>
> Thanks for your post!
>
> Yes, I can reproduce this behavior. After performed some research, I found
> that assembly level DebuggerDisplay attribute should be placed in %user
> profile%\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Visualizers\autoexp.cs file. The
> VS2005 debugger will find and load autoexp.dll in this folder. This is
> documented in our VC# program manager Anson Horton's Blog below:
> "Tip#25: Customizing the framework types display with DebuggerDisplay"
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ansonh/
>
> Below is the my test steps that works:
> 1. I create a C# project in G:\Program\winform\2006\7-27\DebugDisplayTest\
> folder, code is listed below:
>
> using System;
> using System.Collections.Generic;
> using System.Text;
>
> namespace UsingDebuggerDisplayAttribute
> {
> public class Example
> {
> public string ExampleString = "A String";
>
> static void Main(string[] args)
> {
> Example obj = new Example();
> obj.ExampleString = "abc";
> }
> }
> }
>
> 2. I edit %user profile%\My Documents\Visual Studio
> 2005\Visualizers\autoexp.cs file and add the following attribute:
> [assembly: DebuggerDisplay(@"\{Example String value is: {ExampleString}}",
> Target = typeof(UsingDebuggerDisplayAttribute.Example))]
>
> 3. I use csc.exe from .Net Framework2.0 to compile it:
> D:\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0>csc /t:library
> /reference:G:\Program\winform\2006\7-27\DebugDisplayTest\bin\Debug\DebugDisp
> layTest.exe "%user profile%\My Documents\Visual Studio
> 2005\Visualizers\autoexp.cs"
>
> 4. I find the new compiled autoexp.dll in folder "D:\Microsoft Visual
> Studio 8\SDK\v2.0", copy it and overwrite the old one in %user profile%\My
> Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Visualizers\ folder.(Note: take care of and
> backup the old one)
>
> 5. When I press F5 and hit the breakpoint in obj.ExampleString = "abc";
> line, the watch window shows the customized value correct.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Best regards,
> Jeffrey Tan
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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