How can you display details of a custom type in debugger windows without expanding type tree?
Let’s consider following sample:
private static void Main()
{
var Js = new[]{
new IDableText("John"),
new IDableText("Jack"),
new IDableText("Joe"),
new IDableText("Jackson")
};
foreach (var j in Js)
{
// ...
}
}
class IDableText
{
public IDableText(string name)
{
this.Text = name;
this.CreationTime = DateTime.Now;
this.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
}
public DateTime CreationTime { get; private set; }
public string Text { get; private set; }
public Guid Id { get; private set; }
} |
This code will produce all too known debug variable window:
But, if you decorate class IDableText with a built-in attribute like this…
[DebuggerDisplay("Text={Text} CreationTime={CreationTime} Id={Id}")]…you’ll get more readable result.
Nice!
