xamlpad

Silverlight cutting off text/ wrapping it and not displaying correctly

Please help me understand the issue behind this and it's fix, I'm having agood deal of trouble getting the behaviour I want with text display. With certain lengths of strings the TextBlock wraps around, but does not update the control to show the second line, in effect making part of the text dissappear. This works fine in XamlPad, but...

How do I install XamlPad?

This is going to sound silly, because everyone seems to take it for granted that XamlPad is just there, including the MSDN article about XamlPad. But I've installed Visual Studio 2008, which AFAIK installs the .NET 3.5 SDK (how could it not?), which is supposed to include XamlPad. But there is no XamlPad.exe in my Start Menu or anywhere...

Is there an easy way to make a code TextBox?

Is there an easy way to make a code TextBox? I'm trying to make my own limited/specialized version of XAMLPad. Displaying the current XAML object tree in the top display is simple enough, using XamlReader.Parse() ... But I'd like the actual XAML code in the bottom window to show up in its appropriate colors. Here is an example o...

Free XamlPad Alternatives

I was using the XamlPad from the .NET SDK, so I did a quick search for something similar but with more features and utility. My search turned up multiple alternatives, so I was wondering if anyone had any specific recommendations on which XamlPad alternative to choose. ...

How can I use the WPF Toolkit Datagrid with XamlPad (latest version)?

I want to work with a DataGrid in XamlPad. How do I reference the WPFtoolkit dll? I've tried adding a xml namespace reference (below) but w/o any luck. xmlns:toolkit="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Windows.Controls;assembly=WPFToolkit" Any thoughts or help would be appreciated - thanks! ...