Blendability
To be able to effectively design your application's user interface, designers often like to know the shape of the data that they are binding to, enabling them to take full advantage of the Expression Blend or Visual Studio XAML designer without resorting to editing the XAML directly. This allows them to see what fields are available in the data, and bind to them as required.
It can also be beneficial to be able to populate a view with data at design time in order to picture how it will appear to the user, and customize its appearance accordingly, instead of having to constantly compile and run the application to do so.
These features make the process of designing user interfaces more interactive, and are known as blendability. As ...
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