Viewing an object property's DebuggerDisplay

Question

Say I have the following two classes:

[DebuggerDisplay("Test={Test}")]
class Class1
{
    public string Test;
}

[DebuggerDisplay("obj={obj}")]
class Class2
{
    public Class1 obj;
}

class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var c1 = new Class1() { Test = "test" };
        var c2 = new Class2() { obj = c1 };
    }
}

Is it possible to enable the debugger display of Class2 to show the debugger display of Class1? I.e., I would like hovering over c2 to reveal obj="test".

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 24 '15 at 14:24

you can write in this style for your goal:

[DebuggerDisplay("{ToString()}")]
class Class1
{
    public string Test;
    public override string ToString()
    {
        return "Test=" + Test;
    }
}

[DebuggerDisplay("{ToString()}")]
class Class2
{
    public Class1 obj;
    public override string ToString()
    {
        return "obj=" + obj;
    }
}

internal class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var c1 = new Class1() {Test = "test"};
        var c2 = new Class2() {obj = c1};
    }
}

Viewing an object property's DebuggerDisplay

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