View array in Visual Studio debugger

Question

Is it possible to view an array in the Visual Studio debugger   QuickWatch only shows the first element of the array

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I use the ArrayDebugView add-in for Visual Studio (http://arraydebugview.sourceforge.net/).

It seems to be a long dead project (but one I'm looking at continuing myself) but the add-in still works beautifully for me in VS2010 for both C++ and C#.

It has a few quirks (tab order, modal dialog, no close button) but the ability to plot the contents of an array in a graph more than make up for it.

Edit July 2014: I have finally built a new Visual Studio extension to replace ArrayebugView's functionality. It is available on the VIsual Studio Gallery, search for ArrayPlotter or go to http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2fde2c3c-5b83-4d2a-a71e-5fdd83ce6b96?SRC=Home

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Are you trying to view an array with memory allocated dynamically  If not  you can view an array for C   and C  by putting it in the watch window in the debugger  with its contents visible when you expand the array on the little     in the watch window by a left mouse-click   If it s a pointer to a dynamically allocated array  to view N contents of the pointer  type  pointer  N  in the watch window of the debugger  Note  N must be an integer or the debugger will give you an error saying it can t access the contents  Then  left click on the little     icon that appears to view the contents

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Hover your mouse cursor over the name of the array  then hover over the little     icon that appears

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You can try this nice little trick for C     Take the expression which gives you the array and then append a comma and the number of elements you want to see   Expanding that value will show you elements 0- N-1  where N is the number you add after the comma   For example if pArray is the array  type pArray 10 in the watch window

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If you have a large array and only want to see a subsection of the array you can type this into the watch window   ptr 100 10   to show a list of the 10 elements starting at ptr 100   Beware that the displayed array subscripts will start at  0   so you will have to remember that ptr 0  is really ptr 100  and ptr 1  is ptr 101  etc

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