I am using Visual Studio 2022 Professional. version 17.9.0.
For some time I have seen that when I am debugging, and want to see what date a DateTime variable is set to, it only shows “{System.DateTime}” and not the actual date.
It’s the same in the watch windows.
This (someone else’s) question was solved by removing a pin on the Kind property of DateTime: Showing DateTime .ToString() in debug VS 2022
But I don’t have any pinned properties on my DateTime. If there was a Type-property I would guess it could be pinned but it does not show up in the watch window when I look at DateTime.Now.
I also have enabled the “Call string-conversion function on objects in variable windows” setting.
In the Watch window, when I use the “ToString()” function on my variable, it shows the date as I would expect. Why is VS not calling the string conversion function implicitly?
I am using a workaround which is to pin the Year, Month and Day. But it’s a little bit more cumbersome to read.
Some of my colleagues have the same problem.
So any suggestions on how to solve this problem?