Why is the dictionary debug visualizer less useful in Visual Studio 2010 for Silverlight debugging?

Question

I was debugging in Visual Studio 2010, which we just installed and trying to look at a dictionary in the quick watch window. I see Keys and Values, but drilling into those s

Answer 1

The debugger visualizer for Dictionary is the exact same class with the exact same behavior. It is still the private Mscorlib_DictionaryDebugView class. Unexpanded it shows Count, expanded it shows an array of the elements.

Your code snippet suggests that you are using a completely different Dictionary class, one that is not generic.