Using the DOM Explorer
Another of my favorite browser developer tools is the HTML inspector (this is a feature, for example, of Firebug). You can use this tool to view the live HTML and CSS in a document.
Visual Studio supports a similar tool named the DOM Explorer. You can use the DOM Explorer to inspect the property of any HTML element in a running Windows Store app.
After running a Windows store app in Visual Studio, you can view the DOM Explorer window by selecting the menu option Debug, Windows, DOM Explorer. Within the DOM Explorer window, you can click any element and view all of the properties of the element including information about all of the styles associated with the element (see Figure 1.29).
FIGURE 1.29 Using the DOM Explorer ...
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