Mole and Mole II: Great WPF Debugging and Visualization Tool

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In The New Iteration, SNOOP is discussed, a great tool for visualizing and manipulating the WPF visual tree on the fly.  I also wanted to highlight some of the great community efforts that build upon this idea. Josh Smith, Andrew Smith and Karl Shifflett have released a Visual Studio Visualizer for WPF that is similar to Snoop but provides more features.

This product allows unlimited drilling into the visual and logical trees and any sub-objects of these, including objects in the managed heap. User can also view the run-time visual and XAML of the object.

The following two articles get into visualzers and explain the two versions of Mole.

Current Version:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/moleIIforWPF.aspx

Original Version:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/MoleForWPF.aspx

Mole's Home Page:

http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/mole-visual-studio-visualizer-for-wpf/

 

posted on Dec 7th, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2)

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  1. Just to let you know, we updated Mole again. I added in the ability to view and drill into Private and Protected members of any object.

    Mole v2.2 Black Ops is the name of this release.

    http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/mole-visual-studio-visualizer-for-wpf/

    Best to you,

    Karl

    Comment by Karl Shifflett - December 11, 2007 @ 6:19 PM

  2. Wanted to let you know that Team Mole just released Mole For Visual Studio. Mole now supports all Visual Studio project types, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, WinForms! Prior releases of Mole targeted WPF developers.

    Code Project here, http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/MoleForVisualStudio.aspx (if you are a Code Project member, please vote for article. Remember, 5 is good)

    Mole’s Home Page : http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/mole-for-visual-studio/

    The press we have received so far has been unbelievable.

    This is an awesome debugging tool and its FREE! Additionally in the above article, I explain how instructors can use Mole to help students learn .NET.

    Thank you for passing the word about Mole!

    Cheers,

    Karl

    Comment by Karl Shifflett - December 14, 2007 @ 5:53 PM

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