The Silverlight Spy Explorer provides you with an organized view of the different aspects of a Silverlight application.
Explorer
The Explorer is populated automatically once the Silverlight application is loaded. A journal is maintained allowing to step backward and forward in the selection history. The navigate backward and forward buttons are available in the Explorer toolbar. The refresh button refreshes the children of the selected object.
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| The Explorer represents a snapshot view of the Silverlight application. In order to see the changes of the underlying application, a manual refresh is required. This is especially true for the volatile user interface structure of a Silverlight application. |
The toolbar features context-sensitive buttons that provide access to actions that are specific to the current selected object.
To access the Explorer, select Explorer on the View menu.
Properties
The Properties window enables you to view and change the properties of the selected object in the Explorer. The toolbar features a property filter, allowing to filter on property names. Properties having a non-default value are identified using a bold font style.
The Properties window is available on the View menu.
View
The View windows displays the contents of the current selected object. Depending on the selected object type, various formatting options are available in the toolbar.
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| Whenever the contents of the View window are incomplete or truncated, a warning is displayed in the toolbar. Hover your mouse over the warning label to get more information about the warning. |
The View window is available on the View menu
Statistics
The Statistics window provides statistical information of the current selected object. The information can be ordered alphabetically and by category. Clicking the column headers will change the sort order of the elements in the list.
The Statistics window is available on the View menu
