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Change The Display Of A Type In The Debugger

Keyvan Nayyeri has a great tip for how to control the display of a type in the various debugger windows using a DebuggerTypeProxy attribute. His post includes screenshots with this in use.

This is an attribute you can apply to a class, assembly, or struct to specify another class to examine within a debugger window.

You still get access to the raw view of the original type, just in case some other developer plays a practical joke on you by specifying a DebuggerTypeProxy that displays the value of every field as being 42.

Tags: .NET, C#, Debugging, Visual Studio.NET, Tips

What others have said

Alexander Groß Oct 04, 2006 9:48 AM

# re: Change The Display Of A Type In The Debugger

I also found the DebuggerDisplayAttribute very useful as one doesn't have to override the ToString() method to display summaries of the actual object being watched.

Keyvan Nayyeri Oct 04, 2006 12:36 PM

# re: Change The Display Of A Type In The Debugger

I set my fields to "Hock" when want to create a proxy class for others :-P

Jason Haley Oct 06, 2006 5:44 PM

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lb Oct 06, 2006 8:57 PM

# re: Change The Display Of A Type In The Debugger

>just in case some other developer plays a
>practical joke on you by specifying a
>DebuggerTypeProxy that displays the value of
>every field as being 42.

must be a wacky old time at VelocIT!