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

For lengthy text, such as a large xml document, I always use the immediate window. Just type this in and hit enter:

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(szSql)

and it will spit out the text with line breaks and without escape characters. I then copy from the immediate window.