Is there a ToString() generator available in Visual Studio 2010?

Question

Is there any way to generate a ToString() using Visual Studio 2010?

I really don\'t want to do this by hand!

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Answer 1

Major pain that VS 2010 doesn't even have an autogenerate ToString method, syntax is close enough to Java where I used Ecilpse to Generate the ToString and then pasted it into VS...

Answer 2

Maybe you should take a look at AutoCode 4.0. It is a Visual Studio extension which will brings some snippets with it.

For example you could somewhere within your class simply write tostr and press Ctrl+Enter and it will automatically generate the ToString() method that concatenates all public properties of the class.

Answer 3

It doesn't exist on VS out of the box, but it does on the ReSharper plugin, if you don't want to implement it yourself. The plugin is commercial, but I personally think it is worth the money.

With ReSharper, it would be alt+ins -> overriding members -> tostring while class name is on the cursor.

Answer 4

If you need better representation of your object while debugging you can use the DebuggerDisplayAttribute:

[DebuggerDisplay("Count = {count}")]
class MyHashtable
{
    public int count = 4;
}

This can be quicker than overriding ToString, but it still doesn't let you choose fields, you have to type them.

Answer 5

With Reflection you can actually code a ToString() method:

public override String ToString()
{
    Type objType = this.GetType();
    PropertyInfo[] propertyInfoList = objType.GetProperties();
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
    foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in propertyInfoList)
         result.AppendFormat("{0}={1} ", propertyInfo.Name, propertyInfo.GetValue(this));

     return result.ToString();
}