Stop visual studio debug putting slash in string containing double quotes

Question

I hit this odd behavour yesterday in Visual Studio 2015 where I was making a string that started and ended with double quotes. In stepping through the code I hovered over t

Answer 1

This is expected. Because you are under debug mode you are given the dev version of the string.

To get a user friendly version of the string (actual value without slash) you just have to click on the magnify glass icon on the left