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:
- Seeing what events the controls are sending to each other.
- Seeing the control tree at run time
- Finding the control that is drawing part of the display
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.
- What tools do you use for WPF development
- Tools to develop WPF or Silverlight applications
- How to speed up WPF programs? - has a list of related tools
Yes, you can use Snoop. It is exactly like Spy++ for WPF.
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:
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1672696/is-there-a-spy-like-utility-for-wpf