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Ian Ringrose
Ian Ringrose

Reputation: 51917

Is there a Spy++ like utility for WPF?

As a “hardcore” WinForms programmer from a Win32 background I have always used Spy++ to understand what my applications are doing at the UI level including:

I then often search for the control name in the source code, very useful when you have to change the UI on a large application you don’t know well.

So how do I do the same with a WPF application?

(You may assume I have access to the source code of the WPF application if needed, however I rather the utility worked without the need for the applications source code.)

Thanks for the answers, I have just searched for “Snoop” in StackOverflow and found a few questions/answers with lists of WPF tools.

Upvotes: 30

Views: 11473

Answers (2)

japf
japf

Reputation: 6718

Yes, you can use Snoop. It is exactly like Spy++ for WPF.

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Upvotes: 29

Kent Boogaart
Kent Boogaart

Reputation: 178660

Note: Present post is based on Web Archive, and the original page is not currently available as of 2018/07/12!

I prefer Snoop, but also wanted to point out Mole, which is a Visual Studio debugger visualizer for WPF elements:

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Upvotes: 5

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