Visual Studio how to serialize object from debugger

Question

I\'m trying to investigate a bug in a crash dump (so I can not change the code). I have a really complicated object (thousands of lines in the serialized representation) and

Answer 1

I have an extension method I use:

public static void ToSerializedObjectForDebugging(this object o, FileInfo saveTo)
{
    Type t = o.GetType();
    XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(t);
    using (FileStream fs = saveTo.Create())
    {
        s.Serialize(fs, o);
    }
}

I overload it with a string for saveTo and call it from the immediate window:

public static void ToSerializedObjectForDebugging(this object o, string saveTo)
{
    ToSerializedObjectForDebugging(o, new FileInfo(saveTo));
}