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

It might be possible to use the immediate window to serialize it and then copy the content to your favorite editor.

Another option is to override the ToString() method and call it while in debug mode.

You can also write the contents out to a file shortly before the crash, or wrap the code into a try/catch and write the file then. I'm assuming you can identify when it's crashing.