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Viewing the Visual Tree in the Debugger

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

Josh Smith

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

Marlon Grech

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

Josh Smith

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

Chango V. - MSFT

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.

Josh Smith

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!

Tonko

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.

Josh Smith

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

Kishor

kpise

i want some more information about this

sunaysss

seni information joie che

sunaysss

Since this thread is sticky, we should probably keep it updated with the latest releases, such asMole 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!

KevinKerr

Guys, this tool isgreat 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!

Dathan L

How do you explain that bit more, but I had to do something here

cam balkon

alpernn

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

dayanandavt

thanks

Whistler_Zou

Thanks for the article.

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