I’m currently working on an interesting project to develop a series of HTTP services used by games running on the RIM Blackberry. These services will enable players to compete against one another (though not in real time) in various games and see high scores, challenge friends, etc.... It brings a social aspect to gaming on your blackberry device. The games are written in Java and I’m using a Blackberry emulator for testing the interaction between the game and the services. I’m running the service at localhost on my local machine to allow me to step through the debugger when necessary. ...
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,
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