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title: "[Cool Tool] Dataset Quick Watch \"visualizer\" Add-in for VS.Net 2003"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/29/cool-tool-dataset-quick-watch-quotvisualizerquot-add-in-for.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/29/cool-tool-dataset-quick-watch-quotvisualizerquot-add-in-for.html"
published: "2004-05-29T14:21:00"
updated: "2004-05-29T14:21:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Cool Tools"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Finally! someone came up with a way to view the contents of a Dataset object while debugging: The Dataset QuickWatch project allows you to view the contents of a dataset just like the “visualizers” in Whidbey (well,…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[Cool Tool\] Dataset Quick Watch "visualizer" Add-in for VS.Net 2003

By Roy Osherove May 29, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 29, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Finally! someone came up with a way to view the contents of a Dataset object while debugging:

[The Dataset QuickWatch project](http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DSWatch.asp) allows you to view the contents of a dataset just like the “visualizers” in Whidbey (well, almost. you select the expression, right click it and hit the “Dataset Quick Watch” menu. Same difference)

Thank you!

(via Ohad)

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