http://blogs.msdn.com/kristoffer/archive/2007/04/03/visual-studio-tip-examining-long-strings-while-debugging.aspxLong strings can be a pain to examine in Visual Studio while you're debugging but in .NET projects you can easily write these to a file on the fly. If for example we want to examine the contents of string s , open up the Immediate Window ( Ctrl+I ) anden-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)