Mastering Visual Studio 2017

The Watch window

There can be four Watch windows', namely Watch 1, Watch 2, Watch 3, and Watch 4. These are customized windows which show information about objects and variables based on what you have added to them.

In general, when you add a variable in a watch window, it gets added to Watch 1. If you want to move it to a different watch window, you need to drag it from Watch 1 to the other one.

While you are in debugger break mode, you will see a blank watch window. But, you can right click on any object or variable in that context and click Add Watch from the context menu to add the selected variable in the watch list.

Not only objects and variables, you can also add any expression to it. Simply select an expression, right click on it ...