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description: Data masking capabilities of RevDeBug for C# projects and how to use them.
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# Data masking

### Excluding specified code from RevDeBug recordings

You can exclude parts of the source code from RevDeBug recording by enclosing it with

"`NoTimeTravel`" region. eg:

```csharp
#region NoTimeTravel
 public static String MethodExcluded(FinallyClauseSyntax finallyClause)
        {
            //...
            return retValue
        }
#endregion
```

### Excluding variables' values from RevDeBug recordings

You can specify variable names and/or regular expressions matching variable names that RevDeBug will ignore when recording code execution.

This is done in a configuration file with "`.rdbbuildignore`" extension (eg. `project_name.rdbbuildignore`).&#x20;

The file needs to be included in the project as "`AdditionalFiles`" type (in the properties window of the file inside Visual Studio - it will default to "`Content`" or "`None`" and need to be changed to  "`AdditionalFiles`").

The default content if the file is not present contains following entries:

```
password
pwd
cardNumber
secretkey

```

After the next full rebuild of the project code execution recordings will exclude values of variables that have their names match the list.
