Mono debugging: List<string> shows view of raw object in the VS Code watch window

[spassvogel]

I think the formatting of collections in the debug watch window can use a lot of improvement. Compare how visual studio code currently handles a list of String.

Whereas in Visual Studio the quick watch feature was much more useful:

In general, I am mostly interested in the values in the collection, which I have to dig down four levels of hierarchy in vscode and is quite obfuscated.

[gregg-miskelly]

@spassvogel Are you debugging Mono, .NET Core or .NET Desktop?

If .NET Core or desktop - what version of .NET Core/Desktop are you targeting? What OS are you on? Can you reproduce this problem in 'Hello World'? If not, do you have a project you can share?

[spassvogel]

I'm on Windows 10. I'm experiencing this whilst debugging Unity3d, so that's Mono I suppose, right? I'm seeing the same in Visual Studio Code 1.25 and Visual Studio Code - Insiders 1.27

Let me see if I can create an isolated Hello world. I was kind of under the impression that this was not a bug, but just the way VS code (or omnisharp?) was written...

[gregg-miskelly]

Thanks. If you were seeing this with .NET Core/Desktop - it would be a bug. Since you are seeing this in Mono debugger, this probably is a feature request. But not to this extension - the mono debugger isn't from this extension. I will see if I can find your issue a home.

[gregg-miskelly]

This issue was moved to microsoft/vscode-mono-debug#48