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POIs there a way in VS2008 to search through a watch or a quickwatch for a particular value?
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copied!<p>Suppose I am watching something in VS2008 and I want to search the object I'm watching for an instance of a particular value.</p> <p>For example, say I'm watching <code>this</code> and I want to search for a control called <code>mycontrol</code> inside it or I want to search for a <code>string</code> that currently has the value of "Hello World".</p> <p>I know it's kind of a brute force way of doing things, but I find it would be a quick way of identifying where things are going wrong whilst debugging. Warning: I'm about to swear... When I was using PHP, I could see all variables that were currently set by using <code>get_defined_vars()</code>. It was dirty, but it was quick and I'd like to know if there's something similar I can do in VS.</p> <p>Sorry if I've been a little vague, I'd be happy to elaborate if you have questions.</p> <p>Cheers Iain</p> <p>Edit: What I'm actually tring to do is interrogate the current state of the application and quickly search for the various classes that I want to debug. What I'm doing is trying to debug where I don't have the source code (I'm writing a control for a CMS). So I know what the value of something should be, but I don't know where in the structure it exists - that's what I want to find.</p> <p>e.g. An exeption is thrown by the application because <code>foo</code> should be a list of the type <code>bar</code>. I want to find out where <code>foo</code> is defined so I can look around and see what the other variables in the same class are set to.</p> <p>Sorry again, I'm finding it hard to explain :(</p> <p>Edit #2: I find a good tree might help me visualise it better...</p> <pre><code>Quickwatch -this -var1 +var1a +var1b -var1c -base -foo = "Hello World" +var1ca +var2 +var3 </code></pre> <p>In the above, how would I quickly drill down through the structure to find <code>foo</code>?</p>

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