String Initialized to odd characters

[Elizabeth Graham]

I am creating a global string variable in the beginning of my code. I
am setting the string to an empty value. I am running the component
in debug mode and when I step through the component, the string is
initialized to odd characters and I cannot change the value.

The following is the code I have to create the variable:

private string strDirectory="";

When I step through the code the string has the following value:

strDirectory "酌�ힸ³" string

When executing the following code, the value of the string does not
change:

strDirectory = fileinfo.DirectoryName;

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Elizabeth Graham <el**************@thomson.net> wrote:

I am creating a global string variable in the beginning of my code. I
am setting the string to an empty value. I am running the component
in debug mode and when I step through the component, the string is
initialized to odd characters and I cannot change the value.

The following is the code I have to create the variable:

private string strDirectory="";

When I step through the code the string has the following value:

strDirectory "酌�ힸ³" string

When executing the following code, the value of the string does not
change:

strDirectory = fileinfo.DirectoryName;

That sounds like your debugger is toasted. What happens if you write
the value to something else from within your code? Do you have a short
but complete example which demonstrates the problem when you're
debugging?

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[100]

Hi Elizabeth,
That is really strange.
Can you provide some code how you create that variable. What do you mean by
global variable?
C# doesn't support global variable declaration.

B\rgds
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"Elizabeth Graham" <el**************@thomson.net> wrote in message
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I am creating a global string variable in the beginning of my code. I
am setting the string to an empty value. I am running the component
in debug mode and when I step through the component, the string is
initialized to odd characters and I cannot change the value.

The following is the code I have to create the variable:

private string strDirectory="";

When I step through the code the string has the following value:

strDirectory "酌�ힸ³" string

When executing the following code, the value of the string does not
change:

strDirectory = fileinfo.DirectoryName;

Thanks in advance for any help.