Silverlight Spy 3

Silverlight Spy is a very usefull and handy tools when developing, debugging and customizing Silverligth appearance. Koen Zwikstra and First Floor Software is announcing a a new version of their Silverligth Spy tool. This is what thay writes about Silverlight Spy 3 on their blog.

Silverlight Spy 3

In this new version Silverlight Spy gets a major (and with that I mean MAJOR) overhaul. What you can expect:

• A completely redesigned UI for easier access to all aspects of a Silverlight application. The current Windows Forms application is dropped. Various new UI features are simply too hard to implement in the current Windows Forms model.
• Immediate window for debugging, evaluating expressions, execute statements, and so forth.
• Improvements in all areas; enhanced event monitor, an updated XAML writer, property grid supporting both core and custom UI properties, custom attached property support, etc.
• UI Automation pattern invocation
• Support for spying applications running in and out of the browser. No need to fire up the Silverlight Spy standalone application.
• Databinding debugging
• Control Style inspectors
• Extensive use of new Silverlight 3 features
• Standalone setup package with auto-update.
• A new licensing model. Silverlight Spy 3 will be available in a free and a professional version. The professional version provides more features over the free version and comes with a licensing fee. More details on the licensing model will be supplied once the beta is available.

Next to this list there are a number of very exciting features that will be revealed in the near future.

Schedule: the first milestone will be delivered early Q3 2009.

First Floor blogpost: Silverlight Spy 3