Oh well, its mostly for development reasons when (for example) I have written a query and just want to dump the results to screen quickly to make sure I am getting what I want. It is also handy if your dev server is working fine but you are getting odd results from the production server hosted hundreds of miles away, it is simpler to just cfdump some variables than to try to connect VS to the remote machine.
Never mind, I guess like everything else I currently dislike about .net I will eventually get used to it ;-) -- Jay -----Original Message----- From: David Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2008 14:05 To: CF-Community Subject: RE: For any .net (C#) users on the list Hi James, There is nothing like CFDUMP built into .NET outside of the VS debugger. Unfortunately, I have also never seen one of these from a third party either and have pined for one more than once. Part of the problem is that whereas CF has a rather limited set of types, the types available in .NET are practically infinite, so it's a much more difficult task. That said, I have actually been kicking around an autodump idea in my head that would use reflection to figure out what's what and dump it out. I'm really not sure how ultimately useful it would be, however, since it's often just easier to use the VS debugger, and the gains of having an autodump are probably not exceeded by the time it would take to build it. You might want to look into using the Trace feature of ASP.NET. You can write strings out to the trace, and even though it's not going to tell you what *all* of your variables are, you can write out selected bits of information and see it at the end of the request. Hope This Helps, David Churvis -----Original Message----- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:25 AM To: CF-Community Subject: For any .net (C#) users on the list Is there an equivalent in asp.net (C#) of the <cfdump> tag? I know I am probably going to get loads of responses asking me why bother when I can examine variable contents in VS but there are times when I just want to run a page on the server that dumps out a variable without me needing to fire up VS all the time. -- Jay No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.4/1309 - Release Date: 03/03/2008 18:50 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255455 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
