Copy value of watch variable in visual studio without escape characters

Question

Ok, this one has been driving me bonkers for ages and VS 2010 hasn\'t improved this. Say I have a variable like so

string szSql = 
@\"SELECT 
     Foo, Bar
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Answer 1

Append ,nq (short for no quotes) to the variable name in the watch window and it will display the string without escape characters, which you could then copy. For reference the MSDN document is here.