Is there a WinForm control inspector application?

I'm looking for something that provides interactive meta-data about a running .NET WinForms application.

Basically, I'd like to be 开发者_运维问答able to hover over a running WinForms application and have the inspector highlight the various controls and let me inspect properties such as size, position, parent, etc.

I could have sworn I've seen this somewhere, but all my searching is turning up nada.

I believe you're looking for Hawkeye. You may also look at GitHub for a more recent version.

WinForms Spy is a good one. The codeproject version doesn't have a draggable cross hairs but there is a version out there that added it.

Try the nuget package: WinForm.Inspector.Tool

Setup documentation

• Instantiate the Inspector in your project.

  Inspector inspector = new Inspector();

• Ignore specific controls ex. buttons.

  inspector.IgnoreTypes = new Type[] { typeof(Button) };

• Skip controls ex. invisible and disabled.

  inspector.SkipChilds = GetChildAtPointSkip.Invisible | GetChildAtPointSkip.Disabled;

Run your project and press Ctrl + F8 to open the ControlViewer.

Hold down "Alt" and move your mouse over the controllers to select them.

For a 2021 response the best is the Windows SDK Inspect.exe

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk/

Run the inspect.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin<version>\x64 or x86