How to display a dynamically allocated array in the Visual Studio debugger?
If you have a statically allocated array, the Visual Studio debugger can easily display all of the array elements. However, if you have an array allocated dynamically and pointed to by a pointer, it will only display the first element of the array when you click the + to expand it. Is there an easy way to tell the debugger, show me this data as an array of type Foo and size X?
Answer
Yes, simple. say you have
char *a = new char[10];
writing in the debugger:
a,10
would show you the content as if it were an array.