I have been able to visualize some strings with the debugger's watch, but some others won't show up.

In the shot above, I tried setting the expression as [eax+08], ds:[eax+08], dword ptr ds:[eax+08], and they all return that ds.<block> value. I also tried showing the data in Unicode, it just changes the value as if new encoding, but not matching the preview in the assembly walk pane.

If I display EAX (1d46e800) in dump, and hover the mouse cursor over EAX+8, I get this tooltip suggesting it's a long chain of pointers:

Somewhere else, I pick [eax+4] as a string, and now I can query it:

Comparing both screenshots, it becomes evident the difference: [expr]:"string" and [expr]:&"string".

So how do I query this kind of strings? I guess I need to "resolve the address". Is there a way I can watch an expression with the same guesswork the "assembly walk" (not sure how to call it) panel does? Then I wouldn't need to keep changing its type, etc.

I guess here I could use something like pointer expression functions but the debugger already makes so good guesses I could really use its brains. :P