Haven’t I already said that the community has just been awesome in regards to Snoop?
Well, here is another piece of evidence!
The other day, a developer, Bruno Martinez, from Uruguay contacted me and wanted to contribute to Snoop by making it so that there was only 1 version, instead of the 4 currently required at that point.
If you recall …
- You needed a version for WPF 3.5 and 32-bit.
- You needed a version for WPF 3.5 and 64-bit.
- You needed a version for WPF 4.0 and 32-bit.
- You needed a version for WPF 4.0 and 64-bit.
Yuck! Of course, it was better than not being able to Snoop in those situations. 🙂
Well, after integrating Bruno’s changes … you just need:
- Snoop
Yeah, that’s right. There are no labels! Thank you, Bruno!
I’m obviously tickled by this … since it was a usability nightmare trying to figure out what version you needed to run … but there are host of other fixes/improvements as well. In particular, the Snoop start-up process is much more robust than it used to be and it can handle some fringe cases that it wasn’t able to before.
Please go to https://snoopwpf.codeplex.com for more info, and of course, the download/release area for version 2.6.0.
Happy Snooping!
Great! I love Snoop…especially the icon, proof that Peter Blois has a great sense of humor. The real question Cory is – how did Bruno achieve this marvel? Should I just look through the source code?
Hi Joseph,
Previously, Snoop consisted of Snoop.exe and a C++ .NET .dll to inject Snoop into other processes. The problem was that the dll was 32/64 and 3.5/4.0 specific. Both the Snoop process and the injected process needed to match the dll.
Now, Snoop no longer loads the dll. It calls an external program, which can have a different bitness and CLR version. So, we have 4 dlls, 4 aux exes and Snoop.exe which is compiled as an Any CPU to enumerate both the 32 and 64 bit processes.
@Joseph Cooney: the icon has always cracked me up! 😀
@Bruno Martinez
Brilliant Bruno! Many thanks from our team too!
John
I installed 2.6.0 on a system that only has the WPF 3.5 runtime libraries. When I run Snoop, it says that WPF 4.0 has to be installed.
Not quite one version for all yet, but getting closer.
Yeah, @Jim V, I ran into that the other day too and didn’t think about too much about it … I just installed WPF 4.0. 🙂 However, that won’t be a solution for everyone.
In fact, if this a problem for someone, I would suggest to go back and install the 2.5.1 versions you need.
Also, Bruno and I will take a look and see if we can fix it so that WPF 4.0 isn’t required.
Thanks for leaving a comment!
@Jim V, I figured out what is wrong and fixed it.
If go download the latest Snoop.msi, uninstall the old one, and install the new one … it should work.
Would be cool if you added a discussion item as well to the Snoop discussions area on CodePlex. If you do, I will explain that I’ve fixed things there too.
Many thanks to Snoop team for making such a great tool!
I really hope that in the future we will have Snoop for Silverlight! 🙂
Thanks,
Kirill
Thanks, @Kirill!
Yeah, Snoop for Silverlight would be awesome. One fellow was exploring it for me, but it was proving challenging.