Appendix B. XAML Editors and Tools

Visual Studio 2010 and/or Expression Blend 4 are commonly used to create and edit XAML markup. In addition to these, there are a number of editors and tools available today that make XAML development a breeze.

Editors

Kaxaml

Kaxaml is a lightweight XAML editor created by Robby Ingebretsen. It provides a split view so that you can see both your XAML and your rendered content. The main Kaxaml website is:

http://www.kaxaml.com/

and you can download it from the following link:

http://www.kaxaml.com/downloads/Kaxaml_1.8.msi

In the words of its creator, Kaxaml is “designed to be a notepad for XAML. It’s supposed to be simple and lightweight and make it easy to just try something out. It also has some basic support for IntelliSense ...

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