How to display 1000 separator in C# Visual Studio debugger

Question

When working with big numbers, especially long, it's a must to display them with 1000 separators.

Is there a way to display those separators?

Inside the watch window?

When hovering over a variable?

Answer 1

it's technically possible but not straightforward. Your easiest way would be to create a 2nd formatted variable and watch that instead.

The only way i know of to do this in the watch window is you can actually "watch" an expression by typing it in the watch window as an edit to the variable. The expression would append a formatted toString. This doesn't seem to work with arrays though.

Say however you had a variable "total". your watch would say total and you would double click on it and edit it to say total.ToString("C");

I hope this helps.