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Why are my integers showing as hexadecimal in Visual Studio 2005

by Administrator 1. May 2008 02:30

If you Integers are displaying as hexadecimals (funny letters) then you've probably switched on the hexadecimal display option in your watch window.

You need to debug a project, open up the watch window: Debug > Windows > Watch 1 then right click on an entry and untick 'hexidecimal display'.

I hate it when your using an IDE and something stops working, finding a fix can be like hunting around for a needle in a hay stack.

Today I faced the above problem; I've faced this problem twice before, it seems to happen once every year or so. I always forget that the fix isn't in the options menu and hopefully by blogging it, next time the solution will be a simple search away.

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Comments (13) -

Eddie
Eddie New Zealand
5/29/2008 11:22:12 AM #

Cheers mate, I had this exact problem today.

Martin Beeby
Martin Beeby United Kingdom
5/29/2008 4:30:37 PM #

No problem. It such an annoying thing that seems to catch everyone out at least once.

Greg
Greg United States
9/11/2008 9:43:16 AM #

Thank you for posting this! It was driving me crazy, and the hex toggle was just a right-click away. And thanks for being the kind of developer who blogs about it when you learn new things. I'm not so magnanimous Smile

Mattin Beeby
Mattin Beeby United Kingdom
9/12/2008 12:56:30 AM #

No problem... thanks for using the word magnanimous.

Cindy
Cindy United States
9/19/2008 1:35:45 PM #

Thank you! It was making me crazy!

Denis Pitcher
Denis Pitcher
9/29/2008 9:59:33 AM #

Thanks for posting this

Allan S. Hansen
Allan S. Hansen Denmark
2/16/2009 6:27:08 AM #

Thank you so much, had this exact problem in VS2008 (same solution) and it was driving me crazy why all the sudden I got Hex numbers instead of integer numbers.

Thank you Smile

Bhushan
Bhushan United States
3/27/2009 1:00:10 AM #

Thanks dude..But there is one toolbar button beside debug HEX that will also help in this senario...

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