Manual debugging "print_r"

[skiflyer]

So, one function I just love in PHP is print_r($variable)... basically what it does is dump the variable to the screen in some easy way to read.... so if you have an array with the values 1 2 3 for example it'd print

array{
0 => 1
1 => 2
2 => 3
}

And now that I'm getting into C# I'd like to know if I can find something similar to help me along during different steps.

Thanks for any information

 

[chiph]

It doesn't exist in C# -- if you want to dump the contents of an array, you'll need to write a method to do it, and send it over to Console.WriteLine();

Chip H.


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[skiflyer]

bummer, thanks

 

[earthandfire]

... or to MessageBox.Show

 

[JurkMonkey]

Message Box is a bad idea. Here's Why.

When producing a chunk of code, one of my co-workers would always see if a certain piece of code would be executed by putting in a MessageBox.Show("A$$");

And of course it might show up, it might not. But then he would forget about it. So we were about to release the product to our client when the boss asked to see it. The app threw an exception and DING -> Up came A$$ on the screen.

The boss said A$$? Really? Is this what I want my customer to see?

Don't use MessageBox.Show


As a further note, I personally prefer writing my own message logger. Usually from my App Controller I write:

Appcontroller.GetInstance().WriteDebug("my Message"). I can then choose what I want to do with my message - save it to a file, write it to Console.WriteLine(), etc.

 

[earthandfire]

Some of us are obviously a bit more professional than your co-worker, JurkMonkey.