A gridview for debugging collections?

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Published on 2010-12-30T15:50:45Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 15:54 UTC
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Hi Guys,

I'm working with fairly large generic collections and I need a quick way to view all the items and their properties in these collections while debugging.

When I say view all the items, I mean I would like to view the collection as if it was bound to say.. a gridview. That was I could see all all the item properties listed.

Currently VS2010 displays the collection object during debugging, but it takes several clicks before I can view any item's properties within the collection. As I'm using collection with 50 to 100 items in them, I've having a hard time getting a feel for the collection data because of having to click through to view each individual item's properties during debugging.

Do you have any ideas or know of a visual studio plugin that can help display collections in a table format or gridview format?

Thanks for you time

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