The DebuggerDisplay attribute

Today I found out about a very cool attribute called DebuggerDisplayAttribute. What it does is tell the Visual Studio debugger how to display a certain class when making a break in the code. And it seems it is very powerful, using expressions in the string that is given as its parameter (ex: [DebuggerDisplay("x = {x} y = {y}")]). Check out the link on MSDN here.

The way the class is displayed can be further customized by using the DebuggerTypeProxyAttribute class, which actually uses a completely different class to be presented in the debugger windows. Read Using DebuggerTypeProxy Attribute for more details.