'Visual Studio/CLR: Is it possible to watch an unmanaged pointer's attributes?
COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME
Is there any way to "watch" - see the member variables/values - an unmanaged pointer in a Visual Studio debug watch window in a VB.NET <=> Managed C++ <=> Unmanaged C++ hierarchy?
For example:
C++
public ref class MyManagedCPP_Class
{
private:
MyUnmanagedCPP_Class *myUnmanagedPtr;
public:
MyManagedCPP_Class() { <set up myUnmanagedPtr etc> }
...
}
VB.NET
Dim myVBVar as MyManagedCPP_Class
<myVBVar initializations etc>
<break and interrogate the unmanaged pointer>
I would like to see the values in *myUnmanagedPtr in the watch window, but cannot get past e.g.
myUnmanagedPtr = &H10BF9C28.
I've tried various casting combinations and permutations within the watch window, but either it cannot be done, or, I have not yet worked out the correct way. Is it because the unmanaged pointer is [by definition] outside of the CLR and consequently, VS2019 does not understand MyUnmanagedCPP_Class
?
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