See substring in debug watch

Is it possible to see a substring of a string when looking开发者_StackOverflow中文版 a string in the Watch window during a debugging session?

Yes - just watch

text.Substring(1, 15)

or whatever.

What happened when you tried this?

EDIT: "doesn't work" isn't really a description of what happened. I've just tried this myself in VS2008, and it worked fine. The value greys out when you step, but there's a little "refresh" button on the right hand side of the value box... when you click that, it will re-evaluate the expression.

If that's not happening for you, please describe what is happening for you.

I tend to use the Immediate Window for this sort of thing, but as Jon Skeet has said you can also do it directly in the Watch Window.

sure, just put in a new watch entry with the substring you want to see :-