Some clarifications on WPF/E from Scott Guthrie

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Clearly Microsoft is aiming at real developers

It is not, nor will it be a designer tool, Visual Studio is for developers. I would not and do not expect Visual Studio to be a designers tool.

From what I have been reading the implementation is meant to support designer/developer workflow, not for developers or designs to create compelling user experiences with it.

Will you be able to manipulate key frames and ease out splines graphically inside of Visual Studio, more than likely not.

Visual Studio is for developers building the unseen inner workings of application software and that?s what VS does well.

The current plug-in is not even an alpha or beta release so reserve your judgment until VS 2007.

Not sure what richardleggett is referring to "(without intellisense)". When mistakes are identified after your code fails to build, there is a redline and tooltips on the offending code showing you where the error is, along with a list giving the desc, line, column, file and project.

With that said, for now use Blend for designing and editing styles, templates and animations and Visual Studio for application code.

Posted by: MarlonSmith   Posted on: 01/15/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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