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Lijin Durairaj
Lijin Durairaj

Reputation: 5222

Visual Studio 2012 won't let me debug Implementation of Interface

I was going through some of the queries in LINQ and wanted to understand its implementation, so i thought of debugging the same but when i tried to do it Visual Studio is not entering into the implementation of the interface don't know why is it. I am using Visual Studio Community 2015. Here is my code 

class Client
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string[] words = { "aPPLE", "AbAcUs", "bRaNcH", "BlUeBeRrY", "ClOvEr", "cHeRry" };
            var result = words.OrderBy(a => a, new CaseInsensitiveComparer());
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
    public class CaseInsensitiveComparer : IComparer<string>
    {
        public int Compare(string x, string y)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("x is " + x + " & y is " + y+" the value is "+ string.Compare(x, y, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
            return string.Compare(x, y, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
        }
    }

and the saddest part is i am also not able to print anything in my console window

Console.WriteLine("x is " + x + " & y is " + y+" the value is "+ string.Compare(x, y, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));

I understand there are many duplicate questions regarding this but i tried everything and none of them worked for me.

  1. I tried cleaning the solution
  2. Delete Obj and Bin folder
  3. close the solution and open it again and rebuild it Nothing worked for me.

UPDATE 1

I have placed my debugger inside the implementation of the IComparer enter image description here

Upvotes: 2

Views: 553

Answers (2)

adrianbanks
adrianbanks

Reputation: 82934

Your .OrderBy() call will only be evaluated when you use its result (as is the case with a lot of the linq methods). As you aren't using the result, the code is not actually running.

Put a .ToList() on the end and it will run:

var result = words.OrderBy(a => a, new CaseInsensitiveComparer()).ToList();

You probably won't be able to step into the .OrderBy() call, but you will be able to put a breakpoint inside your comparer implementation.

Upvotes: 5

Shachaf.Gortler
Shachaf.Gortler

Reputation: 5735

OrderBy returns an IEnumrable you to instate your Linq query , add ToList() after the OrderBy clause

 var result = words.OrderBy(a => a, new CaseInsensitiveComparer()).ToList();

Upvotes: 0

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