Sunday, June 07, 2009 8:15 PM
rudi
VS2010 help for the WPFer
As previously mentioned, I am busy kicking the tires of Visual Studio 2010… Their are LOADS of new things to talk about but I do quickly want to highlight 4 of my favourite enhancements for WPF developer…
Markup Extension Intelli-sense
In the dark days of VS2008, we had no intelli-sense help writing markup extensions… Luckily those days are gone!
WPF Tree Visualizer
Mole build into VS2010… What else do you expect since Molenator joined Microsoft?
Property Grid
Have a look at the following snippet of XAML
<Grid ShowGridLines="True">
<!-- Content -->
</Grid>
This is how the property grid “shows” you which properties are set (even if thy are set to their defaults)
TIP: The context menu also makes it super easy to reset the property to its default value
Extract value to resource
The property grid context menu also allow you to extract a given property to a resource. Does this sound “familiar”? Another Molenator project?
And this is only the tip of the ice berg…
Other enhancements
Adding WPF Controls to the Visual Studio 2010 Start Page
Drag-Drop Data Binding Comes to WPF in Visual Studio 2010
Filed under: VS2010, Tips & Tricks