While we were adding the Debugging Visualizer logic we went ahead and added DebuggerDisplay Attributes on the Collection, Query, and Entity classes. This really helps when you look at things in watch windows. Below is a quick preview of some new enhancements coming in the official ES2009 Q1 released scheduled to be out this weekend if all goes well.

Notice the last two checkboxes (above) on the "Generated Master" Advanced tab. The DebuggerDisplay option is turned ON by default. The DebugVisualizer is OFF by default as it requires that you link to an additional assembly, but it's very cool see part one.

Here is the code we executed. Once the collection was loaded and our breakpoint was hit you can see how our watch window looks like below as well.

EmployeesCollection coll = new EmployeesCollection();
coll.Query.SelectAll();

if (coll.Query.Load())
{
    // Breakpoint here ...
}

This is our watch window ... (notice the Value column)

Notice the "coll" variable shows the Count as it's value and if we look at coll.Query property it shows the "LastQuery" value. Finally, if we index into the collection to look at actual entities you will see the entity type plus it's primary key value(s) - works for composite primary keys of course.

Well, back to work ....

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