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+3  Q: 

Is there a standalone visual editor for WPF xaml files?

Is there a stand-alone visual (WYSIWYG) editor for WPF xaml files like the Visual Studio 2010 designer?

The VS2010 one crashes all the time and is very slow (there are lots of threads on XAML slowness in VS, but all the recommendations seem to point to editing the XML files with a text-based editor). I want a visual one as I'm very new to WPF and it would help me a lot.

Currently I have set gVim to open up .xaml files, but editing the raw XML file is not easy if you don't know all the possible options / elements / properties / attributes you have available.

I used to use Qt, and the Qt Designer application also edited XML files that specified how the UI is laid-out. It was a stand-alone application, and you never had to actually edit the XML content with a text-editor unless there was a bad problem.

Is there a WPF equivalent?

+6  A: 

Check out Expression Blend. I haven't used it much myself, but according to what I have heard, it's very good.

Øyvind Bråthen  2010-10-20 08:53:15
The only drawback of this is that if you don't have an MSDN subscription, it quite expensive.
ChrisF  2010-10-20 08:56:15
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Look at Kaxaml and see if it's what you need.

Torbjörn Hansson  2010-10-20 08:58:12
+1 for Kaxaml. It is handy. Also, check out XAMLPad http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742398%28VS.90%29.aspx
Avatar  2010-10-20 09:04:18
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Kaxaml doesn't support Silverlight (the beta now finally supports Silverlight 2). Does anyone know an editor (preferable WYSIWYG) that supports Silverlight 4 as well?

Peter van Kekem  2010-10-20 09:12:42

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