While debugging deep class hierarchies in Visual Studio, I was often annoyed by having to constantly expand the “base” nodes to get to see the members I wanted to see. This happens because Visual Studio only shows fields and properties declared on the given type, and tucks all the members of the base classes under
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Painlessly debugging the WPF Visual Tree in a MVVM-heavy app
By Tamir Dresher Visual Studio comes with a built-in Visual Tree Visualizer which is really useful, but in order to start using it you have to find a reference to the instance of the FrameworkElement (i.e. UserControl, Window etc.) that you want to visualize. Getting the reference to the desired FrameworkElement is especially hard if