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Ben talks about writing Managed Spy++

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Ben has written a great article for the April issue of MSDN magazine. You can see it online here. Basically the idea was to write a tool that would allow you to inspect properties and events while your form is running. This tool can be quite handy for debugging layout if you want to see what's inside of what, etc.

Also if you're curious about learning managed c++, the ManagedSpyLib is a good code sample to start from.

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  • Anonymous
    February 24, 2006
    This looks rather cool, but when I run the program, it won't recognize any managed processes. I can see the managed apps by selecting View --> Show Native Windows, but it treats everything as unmanaged. Any thoughts?
  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2006
    Ben says Managed Spy can only look at 2.0 applications as you cannot have more than one CLR loaded per process.