Search Value in VS2010 Debug Locals and/or expand all Nodes

Question

does someone might know how to search for a value in the locals in visual studio 2010 or at least how can I expand all nodes, subnodes?

Answer 1

if you record a macro on activating locals tools window on VS2010 it will generated this line of code,

DTE.Windows.Item(EnvDTE.Constants.vsWindowKindLocals).Activate()

after debugging this code and inspecting DTE.Windows'ActiveWindow when the active window is local I unfortunately couldn't find anything helpful, but give it a try and you may find sth helpful

if you just need parameters of a method you can use MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod() in System.Reflection namespace and it will serve you well by this private memeber

((System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo)(currentMethod)).m_parameters

that you can read programmatically by reflection or just quick watch it

Answer 2

There are several items here that would let you do what you need, but you'll likely have to tweak the code first:

http://www.codeproject.com/info/search.aspx?artkw=quickwatch&sbo=kw