Viewing the Visual Tree in the Debugger

Question

I recently posted an article to CodeProject which discusses a debugger visualizer.  It allows you to view the visual tree while debugging, inspect every property of any element in the tree, as well as view a snapshot image of any element.  I call it Woodstock, because it's like a scaled down version of Snoop.  Here's the article, if you're interested: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WoodstockForWPF.asp


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5 start to Josh... He did a wonderful job here!!!!!

 

Answer 2

Thanks Marlon.  I appreciate that you voted 5 Stars for my article!

 

Answer 3

Awesome tool! And it even works in an XBAP, which I believe Snoop can't do. (I suggest you make the security workaround more prominent in your article.) Thanks for your valuable contribution!

 

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I appreciate the positive feedback, Chango.  I've been working on Woodstock obsessively for the past week, and feel that it has finally matured enough to be a helpful and reliable tool.  I think you're right about bringing the security workaround into a more discoverable location in the article.  Good idea!  Thanks.

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Yep, it was only a few weeks ago that I was stopped at a breakpoint and wished that Snoop would work.

Thanks Josh for the rest of the us in the trenches!

 

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Tonko,

Don't thank me, thank all of the folks in the WPF community who kept encouraging me to improve Woodstock, with suggestions and bug reports.

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This tool is realy ultimate ....It helps us..

 

Kishor

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i want some more information about this

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seni information joie che

 

Answer 10

Since this thread is sticky, we should probably keep it updated with the latest releases, such as Mole v4 (a descendant of Woodstock). It is fantastic work by team Mole:

 

Josh Smith

Karl Shifflett

Andrew Smith

 

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/MoleForVisualStudioEdit.aspx

 

This release allows developers to not only drill all around their Visual Studio applications to view their data, including private members, Mole now allows editing of these values!

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Guys, this tool is great in terms of richness of features and pure power.  Awesome work! 

 

I do get one issue repeatedly with Mole however: load time.  Visual Studio continually disables Mole on me because it is taking too long to initialize (we are working on a massive multi-app-domain WPF project, and I think Mole is spending a lot of time trying to load our structures and to initialize its beautiful UI).

 

Did a search and found a very thin and fast visualizer that I have installed beside Mole for analyzing trees really quickly or for analyzing large trees.  It's perfect for everything other than reproducing the visual or editing the values (I don't seem to use this features that often). 

 

It's called DepO Visualizer and it's on Code Project here:

 

http://www.codeplex.com/dathanliblikdepo/

 

With these two tools riding shotgun, I've been whistling through a lot of issues.  Thanks very much to both Mole and DepO!

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This is what i m desperately looking for... ThanX

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thanks

Answer 15

Thanks for the article.

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Answer 17

Hi josh,

Its really very helpful. Thanks once again,

Regds
Radhika

Answer 18

Thanks this has really helped - cheers again Mole and DepO

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