Watch Window

You can use the Visual Studio Watch window while debugging to watch how the values of variables and expressions in your code change:

• To open the Watch window, click Debug > Windows > Watch > Watch n while debugging.
• To add variables to the Watch window, right-click a variable in the editor and click Add Watch. Alternatively, in the Watch window, click an empty row in the Name column, and type a variable or an expression.
• To change the display format for all values in the Watch window from decimal to hexadecimal, right-click in the Watch window, and then click Hexadecimal Display.
• To change the format of display of the values on individual rows in the Watch window, click a row, press F2, and type a modifier after the name of the variable or the expression as follows:

  h or x

  Type Variable,h or Variable,x to always display the variable or the expression in hexadecimal format.

  d

  Type Variable,d to always display numeric variables in decimal format and strings - as text.