What is the .NET equivalent of PHP var_dump?

Question

I remember seeing a while ago that there is some method in maybe the Reflection namespace that would recursively run ToString() on all of an object\'s propertie

Answer 1

You can write it by yourself. For example, serialize it into json using Newtonsoft's JSON.net library and write that json to console. Here is an example:

using Newtonsoft.Json;

static class Pretty
{
    public static void Print (T x)
    {
        string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(x, Formatting.Indented);
        Console.WriteLine(json);
    }
}

Usage:

Pretty.Print(whatever);