Get Visual Tree informations

Hello everybody,

I would like to code an application that can give me all the informations about the Visual Tree, ie the same kind of application as this one:

http://www.longhornblogs.com/zhanbos/archive/2004/11/23/7571.aspx

So I would like to be able to get all the type of the controls which compose/are the content of another one: the same thing which is displayed, on Interactive Designer, on the left part (under DocumentRoot) of the TimeLine Pane

Do you have any ideas

thanks

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Get Visual Tree informations

shahapu
Ok, here is how I do it:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Media;

namespace __PossibilitesWPF
{
class Utility
{
private static StringBuilder sbListControls = new StringBuilder();

public static StringBuilder GetVisualTreeInfo(Visual element)
{
if (element == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(String.Format("Element {0} is null !", element.ToString()));
}

GetControlsList(element, 0);

return sbListControls;
}

private static void GetControlsList(Visual control, int level)
{
const int indent = 4;
int ChildNumber = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(control);

for (int i = 0; i <= ChildNumber - 1; i++)
{
Visual v = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(control, i);

sbListControls.Append(new string(' ', level * indent));
sbListControls.Append(v.DependencyObjectType.Name);
sbListControls.Append(Environment.NewLine);

if (VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(v) > 0)
{
GetControlsList(v, level + 1);
}
}
}
}
}
AmyHa

John Gossman (Expression Interactive Designer Architect) has an example on his blog as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/Default.aspx p=3

I don't know anybody on the Expression Interactive Designer team who has not writtern some variation of this tree walk, for fun and otherwise :)

Thanks,
-Unni
Dave Neigler
Kevin Moore has a VisualTreeViewer on his blog.

See: http://blogs.msdn.com/okoboji/archive/2006/02/22/537226.aspx

Michael

Ramachandran V

Unni Ravindranathan - MSFT wrote:
John Gossman (Expression Interactive Designer Architect) has an example on his blog as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/johngossman/Default.aspx p=3

I don't know anybody on the Expression Interactive Designer team who has not writtern some variation of this tree walk, for fun and otherwise :)

Thanks,
-Unni

Yes, but for I've seen he is using VisualOperations which is not avaliable with the Feb CTP :)

Get Visual Tree informations

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