XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio, WPF on Nov 20th, 2007
The XAML editor in Visual Studio 2008 is much improved over the 2005 Extensions version. Let’s take a look as some of the preferences you can change in the Tools/Options dialog. Full XAML view I like working in the XAML editor in Visual Studio. Most of time if I want a WSYWIG editor I’ll use [...]
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio on Nov 20th, 2007
I’ve been living in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (Beta) for the last four months. Using VS2008 has been annoying and exasperating one minute and fun and productive the next. Most of the pain points for me have been in the WPF designer and XAML editor. Expression Blend Truncated menu bug OK, this first one [...]
Posted in .NET 3.5, Visual Studio on Nov 19th, 2007
Today Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio 2008. I was on the MSDN servers as soon as I heard about the release and an hour later I had the Visual Studio Team Suite ISO on my computer. This should be a simple install but I’d installed the last VS beta on my laptop. That [...]
[Revised July 6th 2009 – Updated to reflect changes as of .Net 3.5 SP1] Summary of the differences between XBAP and Standalone WPF applications. Standalone WPF applications A standalone WPF application is one that is compiled into an EXE and placed on the users computer via any of the standard installation techniques. If installed to [...]
