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><channel><title>Dan Rigby &#187; Wpf</title> <atom:link href="http://danrigby.com/tag/wpf/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://danrigby.com</link> <description>Random thoughts about Life, Technology, and Software</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 04:22:09 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>WPF Tools</title><link>http://danrigby.com/2011/12/15/wpf-tools/</link> <comments>http://danrigby.com/2011/12/15/wpf-tools/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:41:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Rigby</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Tools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wpf]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://danrigby.com/?p=386</guid> <description><![CDATA[Went in search of new WPF tools today to support some debugging/performance work I was doing in a large WPF application. I was pleasantly surprised to come across a few new ones that I wasn&#8217;t aware of. These are the WPF tools that I know about and use on a periodic basis: Free Tools: Kaxaml Kaxaml is [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Went in search of new WPF tools today to support some debugging/performance work I was doing in a large WPF application. I was pleasantly surprised to come across a few new ones that I wasn&#8217;t aware of.</p><p>These are the WPF tools that I know about and use on a periodic basis:</p><p><strong>Free Tools:</strong></p><ul><li><span
style="text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="http://kaxaml.com/">Kaxaml</a></span><br
/><blockquote><p>Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor that gives you a &#8220;split view&#8221; so you can see both your XAML and your rendered content (kind of like XamlPad but without the gigabyte of SDK).Kaxaml is designed to be &#8220;notepad for XAML.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s supposed to be simple and lightweight and make it easy to just try something out.</p><p>It also has some basic support for intellisense and some fun plugins (including one for snippets, one for cleaning up your XAML and for rendering your XAML to an image).</p></blockquote></li><li><a
href="http://www.granthinkson.com/2007/11/08/announcing-pistachio-wpf-resource-visualizer/"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">Pistachio</span></a><br
/><blockquote><p>Pistachio is a utility I created with fellow Infragistics VDGer Tim Hussey. It’s pretty simple really, you just open a .csproj file with Pistachio and it identifies all resources defined within the project, then shows you which of those resources are used and where they’re used.</p></blockquote></li><li><a
href="http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/"><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">Snoop</span></a><br
/><blockquote><p>&#8220;Snoop &#8230; the WPF utility by Pete Blois and now maintained by Cory Plotts that allows you to spy/browse the visual tree and change properties &#8230; amongst other things.</p></blockquote></li><li><span
style="text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="http://wpfinspector.codeplex.com/">WPF Inspector</a></span><br
/><blockquote><p>WPF Inspector is a utility that attaches to a running WPF application to troubleshoot common problems with layouting, databinding or styling. WPF Inspector allows you to explore a live view of the logical- and visual tree, read and edit property values of elements, watch the data context, debug triggers, trace styles and much more.</p></blockquote></li><li><span
style="text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969767.aspx">WPF Performance Suite</a></span><br
/><blockquote><p>The WPF Performance Suite enables you to analyze the run-time behavior of your WPF applications and determine performance optimizations that you can apply. The WPF Performance Suite includes performance profiling tools called Perforator and Visual Profiler.</p></blockquote></li></ul><p><strong>Paid Tools:</strong></p><ul><li><span
style="text-decoration: underline;"><a
href="http://www.molosoft.com/">Mole 2010</a></span><br
/><blockquote><p>Mole is a debugging tool for .NET developers.  It can be opened in Visual Studio 2010 while you are stepping through your source code after hitting a breakpoint.</p><p>Mole was implemented as a custom debugger visualizer so that you can easily use it just like any other visualizer available in Visual Studio.</p><p>With it you can navigate object graphs, view collection data, inspect visual elements, drill into data bindings, sort and filter object properties, compare object snapshots, and more.</p></blockquote></li></ul> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://danrigby.com/2011/12/15/wpf-tools/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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