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Asked: 2026-05-13T22:29:57+00:00

In Visual Studio 2008, is there a way of finding all the variables that

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In Visual Studio 2008, is there a way of finding all the variables that point to the same object as another variable?

So in the example below I would want to find out that ref1 and ref2 both point to the same object as original.

var original = new List<string>() { "Some Data" };
var ref1 = original;
var ref2 = ref1;

Essentially I want to be able to call ReferenceEquals() on all the variables in memory and then see all the ones that are equal. Except I want to be able to do this in the VS2008 IDE.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just found a way of achieving what I wanted, and its all baked into VS2008.

    If you hover over a variable while you’re debugging, right click on the tooltip and select ‘Make Object ID’

    This gives that object an id (#1) that appears in the tooltip. So if you’ve got another variable that points to the same object it will have the same id (#1).

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