With the 17.12 version of Visual Studio 2022 there comes a feature that I was waiting to be added for a long time(and with long I really mean long). Of course you are wondering what feature I'm talking about.
Let me first set the scene by showing you the class I want to debug:
| class Calculator | |
| { | |
| public double Add(double a, double b)=> a + b; | |
| public double Subtract(double a, double b) | |
| { | |
| return a - b; | |
| } | |
| } |
I created a small Calculator example. Notice that I'm using 2 different syntaxes(the regular syntax and expression-bodied method). This is not an accidental inconsistency from my side as you’ll see later.
Now what if I wanted to debug the return values of these functions. Before the latest Visual Studio update I typically used a temporary variable to inspect the return values or took a look at the Autos window or the Watch window.
With this release, you finally see the return statements inline in the editor window.
Here is an example where I added the breakpoint at the end of the function:
Unfortunately this doesn’t work (yet?) when using the expression-bodied method syntax, this is because the breakpoint is set on the method body before it is executed:
Still this remains a top feature!