Live Visual Tree

Visual Studio 2015 introduces a new interesting tool for WPF debugging, called Live Visual Tree. With this tool, you can analyze the whole visual tree of a WPF application running in debug mode and see real-time property values for each object. This tool starts automatically when you press F5 to debug a WPF application. Figure 28.22 shows an example.

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FIGURE 28.22 Live Visual Tree and Live Property Explorer.

Live Visual Tree is basically a tool window (on the left side of the IDE, as shown in Figure 28.22) that allows you to browse the current window’s visual tree. When you select any item in the visual tree, the Live Property ...

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