First Floor Software is proud to announce the immediate availability of the first beta release of XAML Spy for Visual Studio. XAML Spy for Visual Studio enables spying on Silverlight, Windows Phone, Windows Store and WPF apps right in Visual Studio.
TL;DR XAML Spy for Visual Studio is a VS2012 and 2013 extension for XAML projects. The extension is part of XAML Spy 2. You are only three steps away from happiness:
Announcing the September 2013 Update (1.2.1.0) of XAML Spy. Among others this update adds support for Windows 8.1 RTM and Silverlight 5.1.20513.0, as well as support for the JetBrains dotPeek 1.1 decompiler.
For a complete list of all improvements and fixes of this September 2013 update, see the release notes.
The XAML Spy Power Tools extension for Visual Studio is unchanged, and works great with this update.
The Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 8.0.10322 is available for download. The update adds four new 8.0.10322 emulator images (WVGA, WVGA 512 MB, WXGA and 720p). Using this update, you can test how your apps will run on devices that have build 8.0.10322 or higher of Windows Phone 8.
With the SDK update installed, you automatically get access to these new Windows Phone 8.0.10322 emulator images in XAML Spy.
An update of the XAML Spy Power Tools extension is now available in the Visual Studio Gallery. The update (version 1.0.1) addresses an issue where the package fails to load in Visual Studio due to an incorrect versioned Visual Studio assembly reference.
Get the latest update from the Visual Studio Gallery.
First Floor Software is proud to announce a major update of XAML Spy. The XAML Spy July 2013 Update (v1.2.0.0) adds integration with Visual Studio and greatly improves developer productivity.
Visual Studio integration Enabling XAML Spy support in your app has become really easy with the new Visual Studio integration feature. The latest update of XAML Spy comes with MSBuild tasks and targets to be included in your project. Just add a single line to your Visual Studio project and XAML Spy is automatically enabled for your app.
Announcing the July 2013 Update (1.1.10.0) of XAML Spy. Among others this updates adds full support for managed store apps targetting Windows 8.1 Preview. The highlights of this July release are described below. For a complete list of the changes see the release history.
Windows 8.1 Preview support Windows 8.1 Store apps written using managed XAML are now fully supported by XAML Spy. A new assembly named XamlSpy.WinRT451.dll has been added to the client libraries, adding support for new Windows 8.
Announcing the May 2013 Update (1.1.9.0) of XAML Spy released on May 13, 2013.
Support for WinForm ElementHost WPF content hosted in an ElementHost control of a WinForm app is now supported. Just like a regular WPF app, you can now attach to a WinForm app when it contains one or more ElementHost visuals with WPF content.
Inline content editing XAML Spy now supports inline editing of text files in the isolated storage of your apps.
Announcing the immediate availability of the XAML Spy March 2013 Update. Among others this update adds support for Silverlight 5.1.20125.0 and JetBrains dotPeek decompiler.
Decompilation with XAML Spy now supports dotPeek, the free .NET decompiler from JetBrains. Configure your favorite decompiler, whether it’s dotPeek, ILSpy, JustDecompile or .NET Reflector, in the XAML Spy settings.
For a complete list of changes see the release history.
Are you building WPF apps and do you want your application to look as cool as XAML Spy? You can! Announcing the immediate availability of Modern UI for WPF, a set of controls and styles converting your WPF application into a great looking Modern UI app, just like XAML Spy.
Modern UI for WPF is an open source spin-off of XAML Spy. The entire user interface has been extracted from XAML Spy and is now available as a re-usable open source library.
Microsoft today released the Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8. The update adds two new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images, a 512MB and a 256MB image.
With the Windows Phone 7.8 SDK update installed, you automatically get access to these new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images in XAML Spy. There’s no need to update your existing XAML Spy installation, although using the latest version is always a smart thing.