addresses/uniqueness not displayed in debugger

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Warren Harris

I've been using Visual Studio .NET 2003 with C#, and I find it
annoying that some sort of address (unique id / hash code) isn't
displayed when objects are printed in the debugger (e.g.
{System.Data.DataRelation 235} rather than just
{System.Data.DataRelation}). Doing this would make it visibly apparent
that two objects were the same, and speed debugging.

Searching through this forum I found that you can compare two objects
for equality in the Watch window (obj1 == obj2), but I would really
like find some way to fix up the debugger's print routines if that's
possible. Any idea how to do this?

Warren
 
Hi Warren,
I thing the debugger shows the string that ToString() method produce. Try to
override this method in order to show whatever you want.

HTH
B\rgds
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Hi Warren,
I thing the debugger shows the string that ToString() method produce.
Try to override this method in order to show whatever you want.
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It doesn't. See the \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
..NET\Common7\Packages\Debugger\mcee_cs.dat file.

I agree with the OP though - it should display some kind of unique value for
each object.
 
Arild,

Thanks for pointing this out. However, I'm not sure the mcee_cs.dat file
is working for me. Looking at mine, it says that DataGrids print as
{Text=<Text>}:

<System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid=Text=<Text>

although mine clearly don't print that way. They're just
{System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid}. Any idea how to enable this?

But, even with this feature, it doesn't let me do what I'd really like
to do:

<System.Object>=hc=<GetHashCode>

since GetHashCode is a method, not a property.

Warren
 
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