Comments on: Silverlight Visual Tree Visualizer

By: A ListBox that scrolls by column width | PurpleStoat

A ListBox that scrolls by column width | PurpleStoat — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:09:26 +0000

[...] usual, I made use of the work of others. First, I used Beat Kiener’s VisualTreeVisualizer to show me what was there. It was, of course, necessary to wait until the WrapPanel had been [...]

By: beatkiener

beatkiener — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:07:17 +0000

It works fine with my OutOfBrowser app. Can you send me a simplified version of your project in order that I can debug/test it?
My email: kiener@glauxsoft.com
Thanks.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:53 +0000

hello, thank you for answer, i have triet out the MainPage and some other UIELements,but it stills returns null.
maybe its another problem ?

By: beatkiener

beatkiener — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:57:14 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your feedback.
GetElementByHashCode uses the Application.Current.RootElement to traverse the tree down to find the element with the provided hashcode. When you call GetElementByHashCode before the first layout cycle could happen then the Application.Current.RootElement is not ready.
Therefore I’ve implemented an overloaded version where you can put in the root DependenyObject.
Try this:

Helpers.VisualTreeVisualizer.GetElementByHashCode (this, 33675143)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:21:59 +0000

Nice Idea really need that,
but seems not to work in my enviroment
i can successfully write the Tree down,
but the function Helpers.VisualTreeVisualizer.GetElementByHashCode(654897) returns null,
even for top most elements.

i am running Silverlight 4.0 in Visual studio 2010.
The Application is an out of browser one…

i called the function in watch window in the constructor after InitializeComponent() and some other initialisation stuff.
maybe i am doing something wrong ?

best regards

By: beatkiener

beatkiener — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:46:13 +0000

Maybe you have to write the full class name with its namespace.

By: Huan

Huan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:06:05 +0000

The name ‘VisualTreeVisualizer’ does not exist in the current context

By: beatkiener

beatkiener — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:37:24 +0000

I’ve noticed that sometimes the webserver where I have hosted my download content goes down.
I have to talk with my hosting provider. Thank you for reporting this issue.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:03:29 +0000

I just retried the link and it worked. Thank you for your code.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:58:14 +0000

Hi. I’d like to try your visualizer but the download link seems to be dead. Could you restore it or mail me the project?