Are there any well known tools or plugins I can use to get properties about HWNDs while debugging / stepping through Visual Studio? I know I can use Spy++ for these things, but it's cumbersome to do so while also stepping in the debugger. What I'd love to do is drop a HWND into a Watch
child window and see things such as:
This seems like pretty basic stuff to me that would be useful to anyone. Does such a plugin exist? Can I accomplish this by playing games with Autoexp.dat?
I don't know if you can do this in Visual Studio, but windbg has an extension (userexts) that can display quite a bit of info about HWNDs.
!userexts.dw -v hwnd
will dump all that you ask and more.
Apparently you can integrate Visual Studio and Windbg according to this blog article; you can attach to a process and use the immediate window to execute windbg extensions.
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