Is there a way to customize the tooltip for a custom object in VS Debugger?

Question

Say you have your own class called Foo. When you have an instance of this class, during debugging, if you click on this object, you will see either the fully qualified namespace name of this type, or if you override ToString in this class, you will see this. Is there a way to customize what the prompt tells me?

Answer 1

Yes, see the MSDN article Improving Debugging with Debugger Display Attributes , which suggests:

• DebuggerDisplayAttribute - Calculate the string to display
• DebuggerBrowsableAttribute - indicate which participants should be displayed
• DebuggerTypeProxyAttribute - , .