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Re: Value and Type in Locals debug window

Oleg Starodumov
9/18/2006 12:00:00 AM

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It depends on the debugger version.

For VS2003, take a look at mcee_cs.dat file
(in <vsinstalldir>\Common7\Packages\Debugger).
Instructions are inside of the file itself.

For VS2005, you can use ToString and a number of attributes
(DebuggerDisplay, DebuggerBrowsable, DebuggerTypeProxy),
as well as visualizers. They are all described in the debugger
documentation.

--
Oleg
[VC++ MVP http://www.debuginfo.com/]

Re: Value and Type in Locals debug window

SNORBERG
9/18/2006 3:42:01 PM

According to the DebuggerDisplay documentation
"If a C# object has an overridden ToString(), the debugger will call the
override and show its result instead of the standard {<typeName>}. "

We have overriden ToString but only the typename shows in the value column.

We are using C# with VS2005.

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Re: Value and Type in Locals debug window

SNORBERG
9/18/2006 4:38:02 PM

Thanks Oleg,

That was the pointer I needed

Scott

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Re: Value and Type in Locals debug window

Oleg Starodumov
9/19/2006 12:00:00 AM

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Probably the following option is disabled:

Tools | Options | Debugging | General | "Call ToString() on objects in variables windows (C# only)"

Oleg

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