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Programmatically evaluating expressions / debugging

I'm writing a Visual Studio Add-In, nothing serious, just to experiment.
I need to evaluate a piece of code when the debugger is running, and It's being very hard for me to google / search in SO for it.

Let's say that hovering Person1.Name it will display "JustAName". I want from my add-in code, when a command is executed, evaluate the string "Person1.Name" (which is in the debugger context) and get the string "JustAName".

Is that possible?

+1  A: 

Use the Debugger.GetExpression() method.

Hans Passant  2010-09-27 14:08:25
Worked!! thanks.
Matias  2010-09-27 18:19:54
Actually, It was helpful. Using the debugger instance in my plugin's _applicationObject it's exactly what I wanted
Matias  2010-09-29 18:01:44

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