Development Setup

Prerequisites

• Windows
• .NET SDK 8+
• Visual Studio 2022 or Build Tools with WPF and C++ support

Build managed projects

dotnet build WpfDevTools.sln -c Debug -p:Platform=x64

Build native bootstrapper

msbuild src/WpfDevTools.Bootstrapper/WpfDevTools.Bootstrapper.vcxproj /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x64

Switch x64 to Win32 or ARM64 when the target process requires it.

Run the test app

dotnet run --project tests/WpfDevTools.Tests.TestApp --no-build

Run the MCP server

dotnet run --project src/WpfDevTools.Mcp.Server --no-build

Build the documentation locally

dotnet tool restore
dotnet build src/WpfDevTools.Shared/WpfDevTools.Shared.csproj -c Debug -f net8.0
dotnet build src/WpfDevTools.Inspector.Sdk/WpfDevTools.Inspector.Sdk.csproj -c Debug -f net8.0-windows
dotnet tool run docfx docfx/docfx.json

Open docfx/_site/index.html in a browser after a successful build.