Visual Studio 2010 Locals Window Red Font

c# .net visual-studio-2010 locals
bouvierr picture bouvierr · May 28, 2011 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

One of my Debug.Assert() fails so I get a window with the call stack and I click Retry. At this point, in the Locals window, certain rows have red text instead of black text in the Value column. What does this mean?

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Steve Wilkes picture Steve Wilkes · May 28, 2011

That means those variables were updated by the previous operation. That operation might be a line of code executing, or it might be you manually changing the value as detailed in the blog referenced by @CharithJ's answer.

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