ToDump - Determine Output is Grid or HTML (Output Tab)?

Mythran

Is there currently a built-in way to determine if the ToDump results will be directed to the HTML Output tab or to a grid? For example, I want to display the data a certain way when dumped to the Output tab but display it a different way (no controls or DumpContainer instances) when displayed in a Grid.

Gratis!

JoeAlbahari

No additional parameter is passed to ToDump, so I can't see any easy way.

sgmoore

If performance is not an issue and you are happy to depend on internal method names , then you could use a trick similar to the one mentioned in https://forum.linqpad.net/discussion/comment/7677#Comment_7677

e.g.

public class Test
{
    public string? Name = "xxx";
    public decimal? Value = 100;
    public LINQPad.Controls.Button btn = new LINQPad.Controls.Button("Test");

    object ToDump() 
    {
         var toGrid = new StackTrace().ToString().Contains("at LINQPad.UI.RuntimeUIServices.DisplayInGrid(");

         return toGrid ? new { Name, Value} : this;
    }
}