What happened to ManagedSpy?

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ManagedSpy is supposed to be the .NET equivalent of Spy++, but somehow the download page is now not availeble any more.

Anyone who knows why?

Anyone that knows a replacement?

--jeroen

ForNeVeR · Answer 1 · 2015-10-19T04:35:30.710

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I've cloned the original ManagedSpy source code and maintaining the code in modern environments (for example, ported it to .NET4).

See project on GitHub.

edited Oct 19 '15 at 04:35

answered Feb 13 '14 at 06:31

ForNeVeR

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Ideally, this should be the voted upon answer. Good job, @fornever – Damian Apr 22 '15 at 20:43
This is the real answer, I just verified that it worked on .NET 4.0 32-bits managed process. Good job. BTW, uispy.exe and inspect.exe only shows a small subset of the properties, and it's readonly, ManagedSpy is read-write – zhaorufei Oct 18 '15 at 02:56
Any idea how to start spying on a window with it?! I've got just "no managed processes". – Pavel Vlasov Apr 21 '18 at 04:35
@PavelVlasov check your process' and ManagedSpy bitness (x86 vs x64). Also, if you run your process as admin, ManagedSpy should also be started as admin. – ForNeVeR Apr 21 '18 at 08:11

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '10 at 16:52

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You can still download it here, but the original website seems to be gone. There is however still an article in MSDN (from 2006) about ManagedSpy.

answered Sep 16 '10 at 16:52

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 18 '15 at 07:04

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I've cloned the ForNeVeR's ManagedSpy source code and changed a bit to support 64-bit process. see https://github.com/slimzhao/ManagedSpy

answered Oct 18 '15 at 07:04

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Why don't you send me a pull request? I'd gladly accept it :) – ForNeVeR Oct 19 '15 at 04:37
What's the authoritative github home? I guess yours right. – Warren P Oct 19 '15 at 18:51
For the record, I've incorporated these changes into my fork. Let's say that it's the main one, I'm trying to maintain it actively. – ForNeVeR Apr 24 '16 at 14:15

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 30 '11 at 13:01

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Is there a newer equivlent tool? ManagedSpy fails completely on .NET 4.0 enabled machines because Native Images existing under \Windows\Assembly* and it tries loading those as .NET assemblies and fails.

answered Jan 30 '11 at 13:01

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I have not seen a replacement yet. Maybe you should ask this as a fresh question. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers Jan 30 '11 at 15:14
Figured as much, I will. Thanks. – Ran Sagy Feb 01 '11 at 08:42
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For prosperity that question is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4860490/managed-version-of-spy-tool – demoncodemonkey Oct 19 '11 at 11:31

What happened to ManagedSpy?

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