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Reputation: 5507

Filter a List of objects during debugging in Visual Studio 2013

I have a List<Student> that contains lets say 500 students. When I enter debug mode on a breakpoint is there a way to filter/search for a student?

I don't want to write code for this check as below:

List<Student> students = data.GetStudents();
//break here and filter for student in debug mode
var myStudent = students.Where(k=>k.StudentNumber=="S12312");

Is it is not possible in Visual Studio 2013 to do this, I think it would be a great feature to add...

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5562

Answers (3)

Avner Shahar-Kashtan
Avner Shahar-Kashtan

Reputation: 14700

You can use a 3rd party debugging tool called OzCode (disclaimer: I work for the company that makes it, though I don't work on the product myself).

It extends the QuickWatch debug window to allow searching within the object, looking for strings and values in all the object's properties. It's not a full lambda, but it lets you run a search several levels deep to find a value:

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Upvotes: 2

user4419908
user4419908

Reputation:

You must install VS 2015 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/12/support-for-debugging-lambda-expressions-with-visual-studio-2015.aspx

Old versions does not support this.

Upvotes: 2

Pranay Rana
Pranay Rana

Reputation: 176896

Read this post debugging feature is now supported by visual studio 2015: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/12/support-for-debugging-lambda-expressions-with-visual-studio-2015.aspx

Check debugging option as per this image : http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-45-92-metablogapi/0882.image_5F00_thumb_5F00_13C96B25.png

Upvotes: 7

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