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In a particular project I recently started the debugger started acting funny. When I'm debugging and it is paused at a breakpoint, Data Tips don't show up, some of the variable values don't show up in the Locals and Autos windows, and there are some strangely named variables in the Locals window (the ones starting with "CS". The other ones are my variables):
I can't for the life of me figure out what is different about this project than my other ones. I'm running Visual Studio 2013 in Windows 8.1. The project is a Windows Phone 8 project, with the only added references being Fody, PropertyChanged.Fody, HttpClient et alius, and JSON.net.
Any help would be appreciated.
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When stopped in the debugger hover the mouse cursor over the variable you want to look at. The DataTip will appear showing you the value of that variable. If the variable is an object, you can expand the object by clicking on the arrow to see the elements of that object.
Display a data tipSet a breakpoint in your code, and start debugging by pressing F5 or selecting Debug > Start Debugging. When paused at the breakpoint, hover over any variable in the current scope. A data tip appears, showing the name and current value of the variable.
The Autos and Locals windows show variable values while you are debugging. The windows are only available during a debugging session.
I had the same problem here (also using windows 8.1 and VS 2013)
To fix it you need to open in VS Tools | Options | Debugger | General and enable the flag [Use Managed Compatibility Mode], which essentially gives you the VS 2012 function evaluation behavior.
Reference: http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2013/Nov/21/Visual-Studio-2013-Could-not-evaluate-Expression-Debugger-Abnormality
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[Build] => [Clean solution] has fixed this issue for me when nothing else has worked including emptying the symbol cache.
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