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How to configure the debugger display format for different data types in Visual Studio .NET
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Andrew Baker
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Friday, August 26, 2005
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One of my gripes with VS.NET was that is displays dates in SHORT American date format, ie only displays the month index (not name). If your not used to this, it can cause you unneccassary angst! Anyway as luck would have it MS added a means for you to control the way the debugger displays (or expands) data using the mcee_cs.dat file (usually found in a path similiar to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Packages\Debugger"). To change the date format to something sensible (eg. including time) edit the line "System.DateTime" to like: <System.DateTime>=<Day>/<Month>/<Year> <Hour>:<Minute>:<Second> <System.TimeSpan>=<Days> days <Hours>:<Minutes>:<Seconds>:<Milliseconds> Another useful one to change is: <System.RuntimeType>=Name=<FullName> Obviously you can make similiar changes to any other type you may wish to edit.
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