Can the Visual Studio Debugger display strings unquoted/unescaped?

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I see two options that may be less cumbersome then clicking the magnifying glass each time, depending on the situation:

  1. Right click the value and hit ‘Add To Watch’, then edit the expression that was added to watch and add ,nq (the ‘no quotes’ format specifier) at the end. For example, “myJsonObject.JsonText,nq”. From then on, look at the Watch window (rather than the data-tip) to see the values as you step through your code.

  2. Using OzCode, right click the expression and select Add Custom Expressions, and add a custom expression with ,nq at the end. For example: [obj].JsonText,nq.

Full disclosure: OzCode is a commercial VS extension that I am co-author of, currently free while in beta.

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