Question

This might not be possible but it would be hugely helpful with debugging. Sometimes random bugs occur when the program is running. I’d like to be able to type something in (a string) and then it would grab a variable with the name of that string and return its value.

int mainNumber = 89;

Input: retrieve mainNumber
Output: 89

Is something like that possible? I don’t want to have to create debugs for every single variable I have on the off chance something could go wrong. I know I could wait for the bug to occur, stop the program, throw a debug in and wait again, but this would be faster.

Answer 1

You need to learn about the variable, watch and immediate windows of Visual Studio.