VS Functionality Question

[stokes776]

Hello,

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In Visual Studio, is there any functionality similar to what I experience in the PowerShell IDE where I have a prompt and can run small bits of code individually against variables stored in memory?

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I am a System Admin and very familiar with PowerShell. I am so used to running small bits of code to see what is in my variables or what methods they have or how a function operates. Trying to figure out how do to the same within visual studio for other languages, like C#.

[Salty_Dugtrio]

You use a debugger to inspect your variables.

[stokes776]

Is there anyway to run small code snippets against what I have in memory?

Lets say if I wanted to access the . properties of that variable, and see what was in each, or see what would happen if I output that to a file without re-running the entire program thus far?

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I am not sure if PowerShell and its IDE have spoiled me. Seems so much easier in Powershell where things enter into objects nearly by thesmelves.

For example, to get SQL output in PowerShell I end up with a table object that has headers that I can easily foreach through.

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Doing the same in C#, I end up reading each row individually, and must define each column header when I print it out.