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Spy meets Reflector
Silverlight Spy version 2.0.0.21 has been released and this version is loaded with goodies. The one new feature I am most excited about is the integration of Silverlight Spy with Lutz Roeder's Reflector . If you have installed Reflector on your machine, Silverlight Spy is capable of decompiling any Silverlight...
Slideshow Top Rated
My Silverlight Slideshow has been added to the Silverlight 1.0 Gallery on silverlight.net . I submitted my slideshow a long time ago, but for some reason unknown to me, it finally appeared in the gallery just over a week ago. The good news however is that it is among the highest rated applications. Glad...
Solved: Silverlight Spy on x64 platforms
As of version 2.0.0.15 Silverlight Spy supports x64 platforms. To make this work I was required to rebuild the Spy with a modified target platform. The consequence of this is that all previous versions of the Spy are no longer able to check for updates. If you installed the Spy previously, you will see...
Need help: Silverlight Spy on x64 platforms
Up till now Silverlight Spy is still unable to work on x64 platforms. This has to do with the csExWb WebBrowser control that has been built targetting 32-bit windows. I have managed to create a 64 bit version of the csExWb WebBrowser control, but I'm unable to check whether it actually works. So here...
Validating Cross-domain Access Policy Files
The latest Silverlight Spy update (version 2.0.0.12) contains an enhanced version of the Cross-domain Access Policy File Validator. Given a domain it will try to load the clientaccesspolicy.xml and/or crossdomain.xml. Once found, the files will be validated using an XML schema and are available for detailed...
Silverlight Spy 2.0.0.10 available
I accidently uploaded an incorrect version of the csexwb prerequisite to the server, rendering the Spy rather useless. If you happen to see the following log messages in the output pane, please upgrade the csexwb prerequisite available in the download page : [Info] Found a Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Application...
Silverlight Spy fix
One fix and one small new feature Fixed a bug in the Silverlight application discovery routine which caused script errors when a page contains IFRAME elements. Added an animating Silverlight Spy Starting message to give some visual feedback while the Spy is starting. Go to the Silverlight Spy download...
Major Silverlight Spy update
A new version of Silverlight Spy is available and this release includes a massive amount of new features. Silverlight Spy not only reveals all there is to know about the user interface of any Silverlight 2 application. This Spy release adds XAP package, Isolated Storage and Control Style inspection....
Declarative Tweening (4)
(Series Link: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 ) I have discussed the concept of Declarative Tweening , the benefits of having Tween animations declared in XAML and I talked a bit about key frames per second . Now I want to demonstrate the use of Tween animations in combination with the Visual State...
Declarative Tweening (3)
(Series Link: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 ) Part 3 on Declarative Tweening . In Part 1 I introduced the concept of declaring Tween animations in XAML. Part 2 lists the benefits of Declarative Tweening versus Tween animations created in code. In this part I want to elaborate a bit more on the key...
