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dance2die
dance2die

Reputation: 36915

Why is "Evaluation of lambda expressions is not valid in the debugger"?

I have a seemingly innocent code snippet, which I typed into Visual Studio 2008 Immediate Window.

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Evaluation of lambda expressions is not valid in the debugger.

As the message says, it's not possible to call a lambda expression in the debugger.
Why is it not allowed?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 3650

Answers (2)

jason
jason

Reputation: 241651

Here: Why is LINQ absent from debugger windows?

And this previous question: VS debugging “quick watch” tool and lambda expressions

In short, complexity.

Upvotes: 5

Scoregraphic
Scoregraphic

Reputation: 7200

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb763138.aspx

It's impossible by design. Lambda expressions need to generate code on the fly in the immediate window. The debugger and/or evaluater cannot handle this. If you really want to know why, ask the developers of VS. Maybe this is an upcoming feature somewhen. Lambda expressions is a bearly new feature

Upvotes: 1

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