Microsoft Visual C# 2005 - missing watch window

[Alistair George]

Could anyone tell me why I cannot bring up the watch window. MS help
says its there but no matter what I do, I cannot find any settings to
enable this debug missing menu item. Searched Google, asked others and
one other said he could not find it either. Usually MS says that you
need enterprise or whatever if a feature is missing but in this case
there is no comments - it just should be there!
Thanks,
Alistair.

 

[Ben Schwehn]

Could anyone tell me why I cannot bring up the watch window. MS help
says its there but no matter what I do, I cannot find any settings to
enable this debug missing menu item.

Hello Alistair,

there is no menu item in my VS Professional either (though you can
probably configure that).

When I debug, the watch window shows automatically.

If not, press the keyboard short cut -- whilst debugging, won't work in
ediiting mode:
Default shortcut is ctrl + alt + w, then 2.
Does the watch window still not show up?

There are a couple of windows/dialogs VS doesn't seem to by default
provide a menu item for e.g "attach to process" (ctrl + alt + p) and
"Exceptions" (ctrl + alt + e)

Ben

 

[Alistair George]

Hello Alistair,

there is no menu item in my VS Professional either (though you can
probably configure that).

When I debug, the watch window shows automatically.

If not, press the keyboard short cut -- whilst debugging, won't work in
ediiting mode:
Default shortcut is ctrl + alt + w, then 2.
Does the watch window still not show up?

There are a couple of windows/dialogs VS doesn't seem to by default
provide a menu item for e.g "attach to process" (ctrl + alt + p) and
"Exceptions" (ctrl + alt + e)

Ben

Thank you Ben. I figured it out just before I went to bed last night -
but I'm pretty sure help does not specify that you have to be debugging.
That was the key - I was trying to find it in edit mode which is common
for other language compilers but not this one!
Al.

 

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

Hello Alistair,

there is no menu item in my VS Professional either (though you can
probably configure that).

Pretty sure there is, but it would be on the Debug menu, Windows popout
alongside "Memory", "Call Stack", and "Threads", not on the View menu which
has "Solution Explorer" and so forth.