debug object references

[NikolajEgeskovOstergaard]

I have a reference to a .net list.

Is it possible to "debug the content" of the list during runtime ? i.e. can i somehow "expand the view" to see properties ?

[Vsenior]

Hi NikolajEgeskovOstergaard, 

Could you elaborate on what you're hoping to do with this reference? What sort of properties would you expect to be able to see?

Vsenior

[dug9000]

From within TestStand, no, not unless you add steps to get each item in the list using the .NET adapter. Using visual studio to debug the process, you could set breakpoints somewhere in your .NET code and look at the list there.

-Doug

[NikolajEgeskovOstergaard]

from my .net application i'm returning an array of objects containing 2 properties.

I wish to set up a numeric limit step, a multiple numeric step or something else to evaluate the properties.

how do i get to the values of those properties in Teststand ?

[dug9000]

One way would be to use .NET action steps to get the values into local variables. You can use mscorlib as the assembly and call Array.GetValue to get the individual values from the array then use another .NET step with your assembly and the USB_SA.Peak data type with each element to get properties, fields, or call methods on that type. There are other ways too, such as if the type USB_SA.Peak is really a struct (i.e. value type), then you can create an equivalent TestStand custom data type for it and have the .NET adapter do the data conversion for you to get the values into a local variable that is an array of that type rather than using an Object Reference variable. It really depends on what you are doing and how your .NET types are defined.

Hope this helps,

-Doug

[j_dodek · Accepted solution]

Hi Doug,

Seems this thread is duplicated

Peak class is also used here

Regards

Juergen