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

In case you have a circular reference, run this in the immediate Window:

Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(app, Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented,
new Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializerSettings
{
    ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Serialize
});