Visual Studio WPF/SL Designer

Announcements

• WPF and Silverlight Designer Talk at TechEd USA 2010

  Mark Wilson-ThomasMicrosoft EmployeeTuesday, May 25, 2010 11:13 PM
  DEV313 | Making the Most of the Microsoft Silverlight and WPF Designer in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

  http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/DEV313

  Session Type: Breakout Session

  Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks

  Speaker(s): Mark Wilson-Thomas, Mark Boulter

  Level: 300 - Advanced

  Building Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications has become much more straightforward in Visual Studio 2010. Whether you’re already a seasoned WPF/Silverlight developer or the technologies are new to you, come along to this session and see a data-driven Silverlight application built up from scratch using the new designer features – we show you tips and tricks for how to leverage the new tooling to get great results with the least sweat!

• Visual Studio 2010 is RTM! Please send us your feedback...

  Mark Wilson-ThomasMicrosoft EmployeeWednesday, October 28, 2009 6:44 PM

  The Visual Studio WPF and Silverlight Designer Team is delighted to inform you that Visual Studio 2010 RTM is now available! Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/download
  
  
  What's New for WPF and Silverlight Developers in Visual Studio 2010 ?
  
  1. The Silverlight Designer is a fully functional drag-drop designer for Silverlight 3 RTM release out of the box, and for Silverlight 4 via an add-on (for info see http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/archive/2010/04/15/silverlight-4-releases-silverlight-4-tools-for-visual-studio-2010-rtm-available-now.aspx) 
  2. The Data Sources Window works for Silverlight 3 and 4
  3. The Property Browser has been reworked to be more usable – showing a better Category view and a "Set Properties" view
  4. The designer now lets you load controls that have references to static resources at app scope
  5. The designer shows helpful errors when things such as controls fail to load, without the need to attach a debugger to Visual Studio.
  
  Check out these Channel 9 videos for more info:
  
  Designing Data Driven Forms
  
  Styling Your Forms
  
  Looking Forward
  
  
  Feedback
  We hope you enjoy the new release, and are really looking forward to hearing your feedback.
  
  You can send both positive and negative feedback and questions to us using this Forum, and we also encourage you to raise any bugs and issues you find via Connect (see this article on how to raise bugs in Cider)
  
  Thanks!
  
  Mark Wilson-Thomas
  Program Manager, WPF & Silverlight Designer in Visual Studio

• Final Release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 is now available!

  Mark Wilson-ThomasMicrosoft EmployeeTuesday, February 09, 2010 5:19 PM

  See http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/archive/2010/05/17/final-release-of-silverlight-4-tools-for-visual-studio-2010-is-now-available.aspx