Dear ladies and sirs. I know that this attribute should work in C# and yet, in my case it does not. I have a class with a lazy property Children. Accessing this property may have a side effect of roundtripping to the server. So, naturally, I do not want this to happen when I just watch it in the debugger watch window. Omitting all the ...
Hello, I have a descendant of DataTable that has the DebuggerDisplay attribute defined. The default visualizer for DataTable is removed when I add the DebuggerDisplay attribute. If I remove the DebuggerDisplay attribute, the DataTable visualizer returns. I want the default DataTable visualizer and my override for DebuggerDisplay. Do y...
When we must use DebuggerDisplay Attributes? What is the advantage of using this? ...
I have a number of classes that are decorated with DebuggerDisplayAttribute. I want to be able to add trace statements to Unit Tests that will display instances of these classes. Does there exist a method in the .NET Framework that will display an object formatted using DebuggerDisplayAttribute (or fall back to using .ToString() if no ...
Hey all, There are two ways I know of to increase the usefulness of debugging information so you don't see {MyNamespace.MyProject.MyClass} in the debugger. These are the use of the DebuggerDisplay attribute and the ToString method. [DebuggerDisplay("Name = {Name}")] public class Person { public string Name; } or public class Pe...
I was wondering if it is possible to have the debugger display be the text for the class in the PropertyGrid? I cant seem to find this answer anywhere. Here is an example of what I have. [DebuggerDisplay("FPS = {FPS}")] [TypeConverter(typeof(ExpandableObjectConverter))] public class DebugModule : Module { public int FPS {get; set...
I am looking for a good concrete example where it is clearly desirable to override ToString() with something, but to use a [DebuggerDisplay(...)] custom attribute to display something else in the debugger? ...