February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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15.1. IDE Enhancements
The IDE support in VS2008 for WPF and (particularly) Silverlight developers was not fantastic; in fact, for Silverlight developers, it sucked because the design view was read-only! Although some readers will no doubt be happier working in pure XAML, the design view can be very useful. The improvements make it easier than ever to develop WPF and Silverlight applications.
15.1.1. VS2010 WPF/Silverlight Designer
VS2010 contains a much improved designer that offers the same full design-time experience in both WPF and Silverlight projects. The new VS2010 WPF/Silverlight designer supports WPF 3.5, WPF 4.0, and Silverlight 3.0 project types and is constructed in an extensible manner so will also work with future releases—which ...