when debugging, the field keyword should offer inspection

[AdmiralSnyder]

Version Used:
VS 2026 Version: 18.0.0 Insiders [11109.219]
Steps to Reproduce:

when debugging, and you're hovering over the field keyword in a property getter or setter, i would expect the mouseover allowing inspection of the value to show. it doesn't.

here's a screenshot not showing that :-P

Expected Behavior:
a mouseover with inspection appears, like here, on the property identifier:

Actual Behavior:
nothing appears

[RikkiGibson]

Thanks for reporting. Closing as a duplicate.

[AdmiralSnyder]

Hello @RikkiGibson
these two issues (this one and #80442 ) to me describe different things:
mine is about VS (or rather, roslyn) not providing the content of the backing field during debugging while hovering over the field keyword in a property accessor when debugging.

the other one is about the watch window being unhappy
are these based upon the same issue?

[RikkiGibson]

Yes the EE is the component used to evaluate expressions in both contexts. e.g. when you hover on an identifier field, it simply evaluates that expression in the EE, and similarly when you add a new watch entry for expression field.