There is a bit of controversy about usefulness of Edit and Continue (E&C from now on). Apparently, some think that it is a poor substitute for proper planning and yet another debugging crutch.
Well, I thought I will never use it but changed my mind recently. I was trying to format a date in a very specific format. I never seem to be able to remember the format specifiers sometimes just minutes or seconds after reading about them in MSDN.
Being able to play with format specifiers on the fly saved me several minutes and multiple trips to the documentation browser, yet has not jeoperdized my coding approach in any way.
So I guess the conclusion would be to “use it wisely” and that E&C can be useful.
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