Question

I need to print out an easy to read object graph from Visual Studio because I need to show a customer the state of an object at runtime.

Are there any debug visualizers for this? Expanding everything in a quick watch window isn’t easy enough for the customer to comprehend.

Answer 1

If you can get by with only one or two key properties. Then you could make use of the DebuggerDisplay attribute a top a class declaration to make formatted text display in the debugger quickwatch line or mouse hover over.

E.g.

[DebuggerDisplay("Applicant - Name = {DisplayName}, EntityId = {EntityId}")]
public class Applicant
{
}