Evaluating an Expression

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When you are in a debugging session, you can evaluate any expression to view the values of local variables for the current method, class variables, and method calls.

You can view the values returned by each method call in the expression by stepping through an expression.

To evaluate an expression:

  1. Start a debugging session.
  2. Choose Debug > Evaluate Expression (Ctrl-F9) from the main menu.
  3. Type the expression in the Evaluate Expression dialog box and click Evaluate. The result is shown in the Results pane of the dialog box.

    You can set a watch for the expression by clicking the Watch button. The watch is added to the Watches window.

Notes:

See Also
Stepping Through an Expression
Creating a Watch
Creating a Fixed Watch
Using the Call Stack
About Debugging Applications

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