Visual Studio debug window strips output

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 to develop a C# Application. It retrieves a Shoutcast Stream. It reads 256 Bytes in each loop-cycle and is supposed to write them to the debug-output. They are stripped badly.

Could this be due to some Unicode-signs? How can I make output-window-safe Strings which won't get stripped?

Answer 1

You haven't shown how you're writing them out, which makes it hard to know what's wrong.

If you're reading binary data, I would personally write that out in hex. BitConverter.ToString(byte[]) will do that very simply.

Answer 2

Do you mean it won't write them out ever, or just delayed? You can flush the stream to force it to write immediately.

Answer 3

@Jon: I'm writing them out by using an ASCII-Encoder:

ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding(); string stream = encoder.GetString(message, 0, bytesRead);

I'm just looking for the MetaData in the stream.

I'm searching for 'ARTIST=' in the Stream. then I get the substring until VORBIS. I got that working as well, but when I Debug.WriteLine the result-substring it won't show the whole Substring (which is usually around 60 characters long).

It gets stripped usually after the Artists name.