Stop visual studio debug putting slash in string containing double quotes

Question

I hit this odd behavour yesterday in Visual Studio 2015 where I was making a string that started and ended with double quotes. In stepping through the code I hovered over the result to see the contents and there were back slashes in the string - what! (see image below). Cutting a long story short, I figured out the debug view of the variable is displaying with the escaping backslashes - which in my opinion is misleading.

Does any one know if there is a way to disable this in Visual Studio so that it just displays the value as either ""bob*"" or without indication of the string type "bob*" ?

P.S. Yes I know, it seems a bit newbie to be using VS for years before noticing this behavour. Also the image is not showing our production code :)

Answer 1

This is expected. Because you are under debug mode you are given the dev version of the string.

To get a user friendly version of the string (actual value without slash) you just have to click on the magnify glass icon on the left