Egads… it’s a Silverlight Spy!

scbarnes — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:11:34 GMT

When I’m working in Silverlight I typically like most developers heavily rely on the breakpoint/debug workflow.

Although this is extremely powerful, I at times need to inspect what’s been loaded in a more hierarchical manner to ensure my various UIElements are loaded as per my instructions via code.

To do this in Visual Studio is doable, but I find it provides a little too much information than I require.

Enter Silverlight Spy.

A brilliant WPF application made by KoeKoen Zwikstra from the Netherlands (Silverlight Consultant).

Silverlight Spy is a neat little application, as it not only allows you to snoop over the entire XAML DOM, but it provides a great insight into what’s loaded in your user interface via the “statistics” tool.

It’s a must have for all serious Silverlight developers in my feeble opinion ;)

I used to use Lutz’s before this one, but found this one to be a more options available for me to inspect (i.e. stats is brilliant idea). Lutz’s can be found her:
http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

Download Silverlight Spy out here:
http://silverlightspy.com/silverlightspy/download-silverlight-spy/

The Silverlight Link Source

scbarnes — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:58:51 GMT

I've noticed Wynapse.com has linked back to this blog on a number of occasions, and me being the curious type that I am decided to take a look at this blog.

It's one of the best community resources for Silverlight out there at the moment and I for one have added it to my RSS Read list. That being said, if you check out the "Tagged Articles for Silverlight" it's a goldmine of must read links.

I'd also love to hear from others whom have blogs dedicated to Silverlight - that aren't MSDN.com! :)

On a side note, Ernie Booth - Silverlight internal guy ;) - has also put up "Snoop" for Silverlight. Snoop is something I've used a bit since Joseph Cooney (WPF MVP) showed me it a few weeks ago (it essentially reflects the bits inside WPF via a GUI - and well now it does the same for Silverlight).

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Egads… it’s a Silverlight Spy!

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