I think this was done for performance reasons. Then again, you can alway check the value from the command window. I agree that it would be nice if at the point you check the property, the debugger runs that code to display the current value.

>I wish there were some way that the watch and locals windows could return a property value based on the evaluation of it's _Access method.
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>I quess the problem lies in "which" value should be returned - the default property value (which it shows now) or the one returned from the _Access. It would be cool if the debugger showed both.
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>Comments?