DebuggerDisplay in C# comes handy when debugging

One thing a developer does all the time is debugging code, very obvious. At times the value of property or output of a method you are interested in might be deep inside a class. While debugging you would frequently add them to quick watch window or pin (bookmark) them to reach out quickly. One productivity tip is that you can use DebuggerDisplay on entities to make it quickly accessible while debugging. Let's take a simple class as example: namespace DebuggerDisplaySample { using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Globalization; public class Program { public static void Main(string[] args) { var programInstance = new Program(); programInstance.LastSavedDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact( "21-05-1985 12:12 PM", "dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm tt", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None); Console.ReadLine(); } public DateTime LastSavedDateTime { get; set; } } } Here when you debug and hover on the programInstance or pin it (bookmark) it will show you the full name of the » Read more