Jeff Sharp

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📍 Dallas, Texas, USA

XPathNavigator MoveToRoot Gotcha

Most good .NET developers consult the MSDN Library frequently. On the whole, the Library is comprehensive and accurate. Its quality is not quite on the level of UNIX manual pages, but it has improved over the years. Still, one problem persists: too often, the focus is on happy paths, and

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How to Escape Curly Braces with DebuggerDisplayAttribute

There are a zillion posts out there that describe how to use DebuggerDisplayAttribute. They all say about the same thing: put property names and other expressions inside curly braces. Like this: [DebuggerDisplay("Name = {Name}, Value = {Value}")] public class AnyClass { // ... } Voilà! The debugger experience has just been enriched. So