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Love this post by Michael Sorens about some essential tools. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is simultaneously enticing and intimidating. It offers potential for amazing flexibility in UI design but there is a mountain of learning to climb. At the...
I coded this last step a bit over a month ago, and I’ve just not had time to share it out. Yesterday, I reviewed the deltas from the Jan. 30th version I posted. They are summarized below. The major work I added was the ability to show Silverlight 4 projects...
Fun to see this kind of thing getting started! Alessandro Del Sole: XAML Code Snippets, a new addin for VS 2010 Karl Shiflett: Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension
Robby Ingebretsen, nerd + artist extraordinaire , just blogged a bit about his plans for taking Kaxaml forward in the WPF 4 and Silverlight 4 era: “ Kaxaml Update + Downloads + A Request ” He and I had a good chat last week over his plans and some of...
Pausing to think about next steps after making strong progress in the “ Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner ” journey in the last 10 days. 3 major things from that Exploring post that haven’t been tackled in XamlPadSample include: Silverlight support,...
3 major features added to XamlPadSample today! Including Alternate Views, which has not been done in any XamlPad or XamlDesigner that I’m aware of. (link to previous posts/overview & sample code available via XamlPadSample ) App.xaml Support for ...
Added support to store which projects each XAML file is associated with, along with app.xaml and assembly reference info. Notice that I’m using XAML2009 support for Name references in XAML . I’m able to define object graphs (not just trees) via this mechanism...
My Window now works exactly like I want: remembers WindowState it was in (Maximized, Restored, Minimized, FullScreen) remembers monitor is was on remembers where to restore to. I had to use a bit more code that I would have liked, but it all is good....
Today I started to teach the XamlDocument class how to find the project that a XAML file is associated with. The technique is somewhat crude right now. [overview of project: XamlPadSample page –today’s source snapshot: 2010-01-22 Source Snapshot ] ...
Enjoyed the feedback I got via blog comment/email about XamlPad/XamlDesigner. I decided today to focus on some of Mike Taulty’s feedback . Already Done One comment from Mike Taulty was already taken care of: Allow for quick navigation through a set of...
XamlPadSample step 1 sample code is now available for download from http://robrelyea.com/demos/XamlPadSample/XamlPadSample-2010-01-20.zip . It requires .NET 4 (although I’m not using Beta2, if you are still on Beta2, I think it will work. Please post...
I’ve been exploring XamlPad and XamlDesigner features built on top of .NET 4. I plan to ship a XamlPad+ sample soon. After that, I’d like to provide guidance and/or small samples for all of the other steps to enable the Xaml Tools out there to continue...