Hi all. I hope everyone is making their day great. I had a scenario where the Watch value of an expression was valuable to see during the recursion of a function. I had a recursive SolveSolution function and it worked with continuously getting the next empty cell and plugging in a trial value in that to see if it was a legal move.
The Parallel Watch window is a great tool in this manner. You can add several watches and they each go in as a column value. Here’s a screenshot to follow along into the recursive method. Take note of the Recursion Depth value as well.
Using the output of this tool, the application bug that I’d remaining was a lot easier to resolve and resulted in a quicker resolution. Hope this helps!
References
MSDN – How to: Use the Parallel Watch Window
MSDN – Walkthrough: Debugging a Parallel Application
http://www.dotnetcurry.com/visualstudio/994/debugging-parallel-code-visual-studio
