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Value Tracking

Value Tracking helps you investigate value of a particular type and possibly determine how a certain incorrect value might have passed to a given point in your program, and where it might be passed next. This helps you investigate possible NullReferenceException, inappropriate behavior, and reasons why you get incorrect values.

To investigate member's value origins

  1. Place the caret at the name of a method, property, variable, field, etc. whose value you want to investigate.
  2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A and choose Value Origin in the Inspect This drop-down list.
  3. In the Inspection Results window that opens, you can investigate possible origins of the value.
    Value origin hierarchy in the Inspection Results window

To investigate member's value destinations

  1. Place the caret at the name of a property, variable, field, etc., whose value you want to investigate.
  2. Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A and choose Value Destination in the Inspect This drop-down list.
  3. The Inspection Results window opens where you can investigate possible destinations of the value.
    Value destination hierarchy in the Inspection Results window

If a node represents an element of a collection, it is marked with ThemedIcon DfaCollection Screen Gray ; if there is a lambda expression, it is marked with ThemedIcon DfaLambda Screen Gray .

Last modified: 19 April 2018

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