# XmlTextReader bizarre and fustrating bug...well not really a bug...

<datetime class="hidden">2004-06-30T00:00</datetime>
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Had this odd issue working on some code which uses XmlTextReader to pass through an XML string...basically, when I ran the code noemally, it worked every time, but when I ran in debug mode it would read the first node and skip all others.
Well, this drove me nuts, I wrote a bunch of test code etc...in the end another developer [here](http://www.stormid.com) noticed than I had the ReadOuterXML() method in my Watch debug window...well, that was the problem - never assume that the Watch window is passive - by calling the ReadOuterXML method, I was skipping all the nodes causing the issue.