addresses/uniqueness not displayed in debugger

[Warren Harris]

I've been using Visual Studio .NET 2003 with C#, and I find it
annoying that some sort of address (unique id / hash code) isn't
displayed when objects are printed in the debugger (e.g.
{System.Data.DataRelation 235} rather than just
{System.Data.DataRelation}). Doing this would make it visibly apparent
that two objects were the same, and speed debugging.

Searching through this forum I found that you can compare two objects
for equality in the Watch window (obj1 == obj2), but I would really
like find some way to fix up the debugger's print routines if that's
possible. Any idea how to do this?

Warren

[100]

Hi Warren,
I thing the debugger shows the string that ToString() method produce. Try to
override this method in order to show whatever you want.

HTH
B\rgds
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"Warren Harris" <go*************@recursor.net> wrote in message
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I've been using Visual Studio .NET 2003 with C#, and I find it
annoying that some sort of address (unique id / hash code) isn't
displayed when objects are printed in the debugger (e.g.
{System.Data.DataRelation 235} rather than just
{System.Data.DataRelation}). Doing this would make it visibly apparent
that two objects were the same, and speed debugging.

Searching through this forum I found that you can compare two objects
for equality in the Watch window (obj1 == obj2), but I would really
like find some way to fix up the debugger's print routines if that's
possible. Any idea how to do this?

Warren

[Arild Fines]

100 wrote:

Hi Warren,
I thing the debugger shows the string that ToString() method produce.
Try to override this method in order to show whatever you want.

It doesn't. See the \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
..NET\Common7\Packages\Debugger\mcee_cs.dat file.

I agree with the OP though - it should display some kind of unique value for
each object.

--
Arild Fines

http://ankhsvn.tigris.org
A Visual Studio .NET Addin for the Subversion version control system.

[100]

Hi Arild,
Thanx for pointing this out. Mine was just a wild guess.

B\rgds
100

"Arild Fines" <ar*********@should.not.be.here.broadpark.no> wrote in message
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100 wrote:

Hi Warren,
I thing the debugger shows the string that ToString() method produce.
Try to override this method in order to show whatever you want.

It doesn't. See the \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET\Common7\Packages\Debugger\mcee_cs.dat file.

I agree with the OP though - it should display some kind of unique value

for each object.

--
Arild Fines

http://ankhsvn.tigris.org
A Visual Studio .NET Addin for the Subversion version control system.

[Warren Harris]

Arild,

Thanks for pointing this out. However, I'm not sure the mcee_cs.dat file
is working for me. Looking at mine, it says that DataGrids print as
{Text=<Text>}:

<System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid=Text=<Text>

although mine clearly don't print that way. They're just
{System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid}. Any idea how to enable this?

But, even with this feature, it doesn't let me do what I'd really like
to do:

<System.Object>=hc=<GetHashCode>

since GetHashCode is a method, not a property.

Warren

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