Consider showing variable values on hovering referred members within VB WITH statement

[ivanbasov]

Stop in debugging on the following code:

    Dim a = New Class1()
        a.Property1 = 5
        a.PublicField = 7

     With a
            .Property1 = a.PublicField ' stop here
            .PublicField = 6
        End With

It displays member values on hovering over a, a.PublicField. However, it does not display values on hovering over .PublicField or Property1. It maybe helpful to display value there as well.

[ivanbasov]

based on https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/303204/debug-not-showing-variable-values-on-hover-inside.html

[ptoye]

I'd vote for this one. Really annoying.

[sharwell]

Design review conclusion: It was not intentional to avoid showing Quick Info during these debugging scenarios. We would accept a pull request implementing this feature, providing it accounted for the following two primary situations:

1. The trivial case above, where the expression for With is a simple identifier reference to a field or local (the field value can be used)
2. The slightly more complicated case where the expression is evaluated and assigned to a hidden local variable on the evaluation stack (the stack value should be used so the With expression is not evaluated a second time)