Internet Explorer Developer Tool with Silverlight application - silverlight

When I worked on ASP.NET web forms, I found IE developer tool extremely useful to debug my Javascript and CSS issues.
I cannot seem to make that tool work with my Silverlight application. I was trying to use "Select Element by Click" feature and it was not selecting any elements on my silverlight application.
Any ideas what's going on?

The elements on your Silverlight application are not HTML elements, they are embedded in your Silverlight application, so the developer tool cannot see them.

As Jeff Yates pointed out Silverligh is object, so you cannot inspect something. I can suggest to try SilverlightSpy.

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I had similar application to test. I used UIA for WinForm and WPF.
After a lot of research, For Chromium interface, since it's not UIA implementation and browser embedded UI and since the code for web browser and desktop is same. I preferred testing that module in web browser than desktop.
The only other way I found is by using Sikuli. Since it is based on images, I couldn't rely on it.
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We are using Desktop application and it developed in Adobe flex, First we got same problem what you are facing later we found soultion, May be it will help you.
Open your desktop application with UFT tool and later try spy or object repository it will recognise.
To open application using UFT we used systemutil.run "application path"
To further elaborate on sateesh response, the following ways:
launch application using Systemutil
Systemutil.Run "C:\Program\YourApplication.exe"
some other tips: https://www.learnqtp.com/ways-to-launch-your-application.
HP UFT menu: Run > Record and run settings
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Simulate microsoft word with silverlight

Does anyone know of a way to simulate microsoft word using silverlight in a web browser? I am not looking for a commercial application but rather an open source solution. I do not need the complete functionality of word. Something simple that will display the text of a document will do for the first version. Also, silverlight cannot be running in out-of-browser mode and I cannot use a WCF service.
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How can automation testing on Silverlight using Selenium be done?

I am looking for a way by which I can automate my application build on Silverlight.
I need to use Selenium as required, can anyone tell a process or any good tutorial by which I can achieve what I require.
Thanks in advance.
Take a look at:
http://code.google.com/p/silverlight-selenium/
and
Silverlight testing: Watin vs Selenium comparison
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http://www.hightechnewstoday.com/apr-2011-high-tech-news-archives/74-apr-13-2011-high-tech-news.shtml and http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/09/microosft.may.axe.silverlight.after.major.release/
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So you may prefer to consider HTML5 for future projects after completing your current Silverlight project, as HTML5 has a brighter future because of its cross browser support and efficiency compared with proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight.
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We are just getting into Silverlight development at my workplace. Somehow two of our dev machines have been configured differently. I noticed that one of them has access to System.Web.Silverlight in the reference list, and the other doesn't. Both can create and run Silverlight applications from scratch.
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This server-side control was removed as of Silverlight 3, you are now expected to build the object tag yourself.
So yes its legacy so you don't need it.
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