> Also it helps to have Resharper for refactoring XAML.
Personally, I don't like Resharper. In my experience, it adds a whole
heap of complex code to Visual Studio (which is already a heap of
complex code) that has the tendency to make it run slower, bloat faster,
leak memory, and crash. And all that for the convenience of doing
everything Visual Studio does already, just different.
Credit where it's due, Resharper allows features to be added to Visual
Studio before Visual Studio adds them, but the cost is too high for me.
That said, using a utility like Snoop is a must for learning how WPF
renders the visual tree as well as tweaking the UI at runtime so you can
debug your UI quicker.
> And personally I don't use Blend or VS designer for UI.
I've only recently upgraded to VS2010 so I still haven't used the new
designer in anger. If I'm doing some exploratory or a concentrated
piece of UI work I'll spike it in Blend. If I'm doing some animation I'
ll use Blend (VisualStateManager rocks). But even if I'm using Blend, I
tend to use a split view and tidy up the XAML by hand as I go, and more
often than not I'll hand copy the XAML to my production code. Also, in
Blend I pretty much use the designer only for selection, and use the
property pane and code pane for changing elements (recording into state
works best if you use the property pane anyway).
Carl.
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