Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Using debugger to display debugging information

Sometimes it is difficult to debug a complex data type value. For example, with a collection of Employees, if you see it inside a Data Tip, you will see that each item of the list displays the object by default. To view each property, you need to expand it, which becomes difficult in some scenarios when you have a lot of data:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, we are expanding the object to check the property values of each object. As it's a simple object, we may find it easy but think about a scenario having multiple properties and variables inside it. Debugging that becomes very difficult; ...