CFDump on .NET
I have been developing almost exclusively in C# .net for about a year now. In that time, I have wished for some of the language functionality in ColdFusion to find its way into C#.
I have been using Visual Studio 2008 since it came out, and I found a project that is used to test Linq called ObjectDumper. It compiles a class called ObjectDumper that can be used for dumping the value of just about any object into a command line.
Here is some sample syntax;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace DumperTest
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var myObject = new[]
{
new { Name = "Chris Smith", PhoneNumbers = new[] { "206-555-0101", "425-882-8080" } },
new { Name = "Bob Harris", PhoneNumbers = new[] { "650-555-0199" } }
};
var myPets = new[]
{
new { name = "Spike", number=9 },
new { name = "Snoopy", number=7 }
};
ObjectDumper.Write(myObject);
ObjectDumper.Write(myPets);
}
}
}
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
namespace DumperTest
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var myObject = new[]
{
new { Name = "Chris Smith", PhoneNumbers = new[] { "206-555-0101", "425-882-8080" } },
new { Name = "Bob Harris", PhoneNumbers = new[] { "650-555-0199" } }
};
var myPets = new[]
{
new { name = "Spike", number=9 },
new { name = "Snoopy", number=7 }
};
ObjectDumper.Write(myObject);
ObjectDumper.Write(myPets);
}
}
}
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so putting watches onto objects and being able to drill down into object properties or elements of array collections no good for you?
# Posted By barry.b
| 4/25/08 9:45 AM
that requires the debugger, which is fine. I like the object dumper because it works in the command line.
# Posted By David Fekke
| 4/25/08 10:02 AM
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