In Visual Studio when debugging C# code, can I export a List or a Dictionary in xml,csv or text format easily?

Question

In Visual Studio when debugging C# code, can I export a Dictionary in xml,csv or text format easily?

I would like to export a

Answer 1

You can add a watch to your Dictionary (or List), then under the Watch Window you can then expand the entire dictionary (or List), right click, select-all, copy

Then in Excel you can paste the data and it should auto-format:

You could also just paste this data directly into another text-editor (or just view the data directly in the watch window too).

Hope that can help.