Max

Silverlight Spy 2 is Out

Koen Zwikstra has just release Silverlight Spy 2 and its rocks!

You can download it here. Be sure to install the prerequisites first.

For new users, Silverlight Spy can be used to inspect a Silverlight application at runtime. It's very usefull while debugging application with lots of objects created dynamically. It's also awsome to understand how Silverlight plugin works. Event Monitor help you to understand which events are fired, when and on what source.

Tips : To quickly select any UIElement, just press Ctrl+Shift key and move your mouse on the Silverlight Plugin.

This new Version works for Silverlight 2.0 application only and does not (yet?) support Silverlight 1.0 application. So don't uninstalled Silverlight Spy 1.0 yet. You will need both if you want to Spy 1.0 and 2.0 SL application.

For 1.0 French Users, I report a bug fix due to string formating trouble on none InvariantCulture machine. This bug cause Exception while selecting some UIElement. Moreover all foat numbers in Xaml generation where formated with a coma instead of dot. I'm sure Koen is very busy at this time with this new version but I hope it should be fix a day.

About Xaml Generator I note that SLSpy2 generator include much more details than SLSpy 1.0. SLSpy2 Xaml Generator is now enable to read all property of type Point (which was impossible in SL1.0) so all RenderTransformOrigin and other Point properties are now correctly included. By the way, XAML for Path.Data mini language is not available yet.

Hope this help.

Thanks to Koen and Silverlight Spy Team from FirstFloor

Have fun with this great development tool.

Max