[Cool tool] Silverlight Spy
Silverlight Spy is a free(*) tool that allows you to inspect any online Silverlight app.
Just launch it and point to a web page with a Silverlight app, then you can:
- Explore the XAP package
- Isolated Storage use
- Monitor performance
- Browse the UI visual and logical tree
- Examine objects
Here is a screen shot of the app that shows the UI inspection (Live XAML outline):
You can even decompile code inside the dll, for that you need Reflector installed, then go to Tools / Options to configure it:
It also comes with a tool to check Cross Domain policy files:
This pane shows some info and interesting warnings:
Try Silverlight Spy
You can install it online via ClickOnce:
http://silverlightspy.com/silverlightspy/download-silverlight-spy/
(*) Silverlight Spy now has a version 3 which won’t be free as soon as it leaves beta mode.
As seen on the website: ”Silverlight Spy 2 is no longer maintained and will be phased out eventually.”