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• Update about Snoop

  

  By Andreas Finne

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  Monday, March 29, 2010

  Tags: Debugging , WPF , Tips , Tools

  A couple of days after my last post about tools for WPF debugging, I got the word that Snoop has been made open source and released on Codeplex. There are versions for both 32- and 64-bit systems, and even WPF 4.0 is supported.

  This version of Snoop is based on version 2 of the original Snoop and contains a merge of the improvements done by different people, so it supports on-the-fly editing of properties, WPF interop scenarios (WPF hosting Windows Forms or vice versa), bug fixes including support for visual trees with more that 255 levels, among other improvements. Check out Cory Plotts’ blog post about the release.

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• Tools for WPF debugging

  

  By Andreas Finne

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  Monday, February 08, 2010

  Tags: Debugging , WPF , Tips , Tools

  Just a short note about a couple of tools I've been using when developing WPF applications. Please refer to the links for more information about the tools.

  Snoop provides visual debugging of WPF applications at runtime.

  Crack.NET is a runtime debugging and scripting tool. Also supports Windows Forms applications.

  Mole is a Visual Studio visualizer allowing unlimited drilling into objects and sub-objects.

  Due to the way the hooks are written, neither Snoop nor Crack.NET will work on 64-bit processes. However, there is an x64 version of Snoop available on Dan’s IK Blog (there is an updated version here). This version is based on an earlier version of Snoop where property value editing is supported, so even though you’re living in a 32-bit world, you can take advantage of this version.

  Check them out!

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