>Hand coded? That's just so old school. I know most of you feel super productive now with hand coding. I certainly was in the same position and I've to admit, it's still easier in some scenarios, but I do most of my design know in Blend. To be hones it came a long way through, if you tried previous versions of it, it's worth looking again. I remember previous versions were really unstable and generated ugly Xaml. A lot of this issues are addressed with the new XamlParser and XamlWriter, so Blend behaves closer to the runtime experience, generates better xaml and doesn't crash (as much). Also, as with WPF/Silverlight/Hand coding Xaml, it also has a steep learning curve, although not as hard. It requires some time, but once you get over that, it's definately (IMO) the main way to design a UI.
I think everyone, specially the new ones to Xaml, should spend some good time with Blend. If you're already a Xaml guru, just force yourself to use it for 5 days and you will find a whole new world of D&D opportunities :) Don't use Split view, don't look at the Xaml until you check in and you'll be surprised, it's actually good. If you want to take a more formal approach to it. toolbox<http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/>and the Expression tutorials <http://visitmix.com/Labs/rosetta/eyesofblend/> are great resources. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Winston Pang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hand coded? > > I personally don't use either designer as well, they do emit some clunky > crap, and it's not easy for these designers to do a good job at emitting > clean XAML anyways. > > Again, the main reason is because we're not dealing with precise pixel > placement, rather a scalable approach and resolution independent. So all the > designers have been doing is adding margin's (for Grid's and some other > layout panels) and Top and Left offsets (For canvas) when people are > dragging around buttons to make their typical LOB forms, which gets pretty > ugly, and doesn't resize well. > > I use the designer tools only to generate interesting paths which I may > use, and sometimes for tinkering with my gradients. > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >And personally I don’t use Blend or VS designer for UI. >> >> >> >> What do you use? >> >> >> >> Greg >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ozwpf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf > > -- Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com (blog) [email protected]
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