Did you know… There is a QuickWatch window? - #303

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While you are debugging your code, you can right-click on any variable and select “QuickWatch…”

The QuickWatch dialog box is very similar to the Watch Window. Think of the QuickWatch dialog as a way to look at just one variable at a time. This is especially useful if you have an array or object that you want to expand in the tree view, as shown below.

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  August 31, 2008
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• Anonymous
  September 02, 2008
  My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Sara Ford's Tip of the Day #303 covers the QuickWatch window . Carlos Quintero posted The diagram of the convoluted build configuration

• Anonymous
  September 04, 2008
  Sara, I have a quick question on Quickwatch vs Watch: when dealing with something like a listbox or a dataset why can I only see my "items" or "tables" collections on structures when evaluated with quickwatch? If I try and look at the same info on a "watched" variable, it has "unsupported something.." or "in order to evaluate an indexed property.." where there should be data. I've never understood why the quickwatch will show me what I want but the watch wouldn't.  Figured if anyone could sort it out in a way i'd understand, it would be you. If needed I'll try to mock up an example.

• Anonymous
  February 25, 2009
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