Question

I know we have Watch to monitor a variable in Debug mode, you can the variable changing, removed, or being assigned to another object.

But what I mean is to monitor a centain object states in memory.

Say I have a method that will receive an object and assign into a variable

i.e:

void DoSomething(object anObject){
   object tempObject = anObject;
}

This method will be called more than 1 times.

If I use Watch on this tempObject, the tempObject in Watch will keep on changing when the new assigned object value.

What I interest here, is to only Watch this anObject instead. Say on the 2nd Call to this method, I found out this anObject has centain parameter is incorrect, I want to trace this object, to see when will this incorrect parameter changed back to a correct parameter. (Even out of scope).

How can I do that? Or is it possible to do it in Visual Studio?

Because right now I am having similar problem, I have a centain object I see it got disposed, but somehow somewhere is being used again and its said is not disposed. Using Watch I have no idea if that’s the same object I have been watching.

I hope I made this clear.

Answer 1

Try holding a WeakReference to the object in question and watch it. From there you can see if the target of the WeakReference and the object in question are in fact the same object.