c# - Is it possible to change the value of a variable during execution time?

Question

I want to know if there is any way I can change the value of a variable during execution time, using Visual Studio 2008? I know I can do this on Eclipse (put a breakpoint, add a watcher and edit whatever variable value I want) but I didn't find this feature on VS yet?

Any idea?

Thanks.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2972454/is-it-possible-to-change-the-value-of-a-variable-during-execution-time

Answer 1

In VS if you hover your mouse over this variable, you'll notice it displays it's value in a tooltip. You can click into this tooltip and edit it manually - though you need to provide a value of the correct format for the data type. Strings also need quotes "".

There is likely a way to do this via some of the other debugging windows, but I don't know of any. I'll leave those answers to someone else.