Yes, Blend would be better with Intellisense... The main advantage of Blend 2 for Silverlight is that it knows what is valid Silverlight XAML vs valid WPF XAML, and it can make valid Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 projects from scratch. If you're doing SL I'd just grab the Blend 2 preview. You won't regret it.
Shane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2007 10:40 AM To: listserver@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Re: [OzSilverlight] Expression Blend 1 I don't like that. I know the Expression suit is targeted at designers, but I'm a developer who is trying to use Blend for the visual stuff. Not having Intellisense discourages me from using it. One nice thing though it seems the latest Preview of Blend 2 (Sept) can now render the XAML in my projects again. Not sure why but was getting render errors both in Cider and Blend. Something in there it didn't like but now its OK again. I can see why there is tool separation but Designers and Developers are not always separated. I wear both hats so why can't my software? There is a VS for developers, database guys, testers, and architechs... Why not designers? I think all of the Expression suite could be integrated into the Visual studio suite. One app to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. cheers, Stephen On 10/3/07, Damian Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Blend 2 still doesn't have any intellisense of any sort, XAML or Javascript. That is strictly the domain of Visual Studio. Not sure I agree with that idea but that's the way it is. I guess you could use one of the Express editions of Visual Studio to get free IntelliSense for your Silverlight projects, but basically Blend is for designing only, no code. Regards, Damian Edwards Readify | Senior Developer M: 0448 545 868 | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | C: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | W: www.readify.net<http://www.readify.net/> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of Bec Carter Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2007 08:26 To: listserver@ozsilverlight.com<mailto:listserver@ozsilverlight.com> Subject: RE: [OzSilverlight] Expression Blend 1 Well I have the full license for Blend 1, so... Can you possibly tell me what cool features Blend 2 preview has? Javascript Intellisense for Silverlight 1.0 projects? It may be argued that the coding should be left to Visual Studio I guess (and Orcas does have the Intellisense as you know), but a lot of the graphical effects need some sort of code anyway, and so I'd expect Intellisense to be available in Blend. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: listserver@ozSilverlight.com<mailto:listserver@ozSilverlight.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 16:05:51 +0800 Subject: RE: [OzSilverlight] Expression Blend 1 Not that I know of. You could possibly make the project first in VS and then open it in Blend1? But it's not for me to make claims about VS so I'll leave that to others... In any case Blend 2 preview is free, so do you have a particular need to use Blend 1? 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