Did you know... You can add $exception to the Watch window to see the caught exception - #318http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/09/22/did-you-know-you-can-add-exception-to-the-watch-window-to-see-the-caught-exception-318.aspxIf you just quickly want to know what exception has been caught, without having to figure out the variable name of the exception in the try catch, you can just type in $exception in the watch window. Technorati Tags: VS2005Tip , VS2008Tipen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)re: Did you know... You can add $exception to the Watch window to see the caught exception - #318http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/09/22/did-you-know-you-can-add-exception-to-the-watch-window-to-see-the-caught-exception-318.aspx#8961098Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:40:32 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8961098Jonathon Kresner<p>Hi Sarah,</p> <p>Enjoyed your tips and tricks session at Re-mix in Brighton! I'll be watching you blog in the future. Great to meet you and good luck with the hiking :)</p> <p>Jonathon Kresner</p>re: Did you know... You can add $exception to the Watch window to see the caught exception - #318http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/09/22/did-you-know-you-can-add-exception-to-the-watch-window-to-see-the-caught-exception-318.aspx#8961132Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:03:15 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8961132minnesota mike<p>That is interesting. &nbsp;I'm assuming that there must be at least a few other '$' variables that could be added to the Watch window as well.</p>re: Did you know... You can add $exception to the Watch window to see the caught exception - #318http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/09/22/did-you-know-you-can-add-exception-to-the-watch-window-to-see-the-caught-exception-318.aspx#8961203Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:15:02 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8961203Luk<p>Great! Now if we had $result... :-)</p>re: Did you know... You can add $exception to the Watch window to see the caught exception - #318http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/09/22/did-you-know-you-can-add-exception-to-the-watch-window-to-see-the-caught-exception-318.aspx#8963613Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:56:29 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8963613Gert<p>Are there more $... tags that we should know about?</p>Visual Studio Links #74http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/09/22/did-you-know-you-can-add-exception-to-the-watch-window-to-see-the-caught-exception-318.aspx#8964043Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:32:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8964043Visual Studio Hacks<p>My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Clarius has released T4 Editor , a product that adds a good experience to Visual Studio for editing T4 templates. Pixel Mine has released</p>