#WatchWindow

TechKeysXTechKeysX
2025-09-28

Watch window in Excel part 70:
The Watch Window in Excel lets you monitor values from different cells across sheets/workbooks without scrolling or switching.

💾 Paweł Łukasikpawel_lukasik@infosec.exchange
2024-01-24

Another debugging topic today. And another look at Watch window 🔍 in Visual Studio. Using it, we can observe values of our variables while the code is running but sometimes that's not enough. We can use pseudo variables.

The documentation 📑 is attached as an image down below 👇 but it doesn't contain the full list.

📌 $exception is probably the most know one; it holds the last thrown exception
📌 $returnvalue holds the result of the function right after we exit
📌 $asyncStateMachine - the state machine object, available inside async method
📌 $threadSmallObjectHeapBytes, $threadUserOldHeapBytes - give an info about how much bytes were allocated by the current thread

🔗 See the docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visu

#dotnet #visualstudio #debugger #watchwindow

Arnd Layeriamlayer8
2023-01-07

... the in the shirt's sleeve

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