Visual Studio 2005

9 Jan 2007 1:50 PM

marcmc

Where is the auto tab on VS 2005 during debug to show you things like the
cn.state, dtr state etc? I cannot find it.

Also, vb.net 2005 is saying that i have a Null Reference Exception on the
following line which worked perfectly in VS 2003

dtr = cmdSelect.ExecuteReader

The Exception Helper says to "use the New keyword to create an object
iunstance" which i have tried but may not have the syntax for.

Any ideas much appreciated.

9 Jan 2007 6:43 PM

William (Bill) Vaughn

Yup. There is an "autos" tab. (Debug | Windows | Autos). You can also set a
watchpoint on the property.
Did you declare the DataReader as in:

Dim x as SqlDataReader

?
Is the Command object instantiated? Did you break at this point and examine
the instantiation state of the variables?

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"marcmc" <mar***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:87E51009-D3D8-4A3E-ACDC-89934020457A@microsoft.com...
> Where is the auto tab on VS 2005 during debug to show you things like the
> cn.state, dtr state etc? I cannot find it.
>
> Also, vb.net 2005 is saying that i have a Null Reference Exception on the
> following line which worked perfectly in VS 2003
>
> dtr = cmdSelect.ExecuteReader
>
> The Exception Helper says to "use the New keyword to create an object
> iunstance" which i have tried but may not have the syntax for.
>
> Any ideas much appreciated.
>

10 Jan 2007 5:23 PM

marcmc

got it working bill thnx and have the auto's, locals etc windows displayed too.
Cheers