Does Visual Studio debugger offer any mechanism to determine object size at runtime?

It not is there any other way to do that (without writing by hand)?

hilberthilbert:

Does Visual Studio debugger offer any mechanism to determine object size at runtime?

What do you mean by Object size?

As far as I know I don't think there's a property in VS do this

you can add breakpoints and access the properties of that object

Also you can read this discussions

http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/50406

http://bytes.com/groups/net/159867-object-size

For example   -   class AAA  {  int x;  char[] y; }

The actual size of objects of this type will be the sum of two fields (x - always 4 bytes, and the current size of y array that can vary).

I want to know the actual size of AAA object at runtime.

Could you provide a code example, or idea of how can it be done by hand?

I need for example a function that calculates the size of any object independent of it's and contained objects types (reference or value).

You should consider using Performance Counters or Tracing:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386420.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fxk122b4.aspx

http://www.getdotnetcode.com/GdncStore/free/Articles/Getting%20Started%20With%20Performance%20Counters.htm

http://forums.asp.net/t/1274475.aspx

Use CLR Profiler:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms979205.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=CD5AA57C-9CD1-45AB-AA4B-8DC586D30938&displaylang=en

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