posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 11:42 PM
by
Sean Gerety
I'd like the Sparkling Cider please...
At PDC 2005 I got to play around with Sparkle at the Hands on Lab. I've got Cider installed with VS 2005 on Server 2003, via the December CTP of WinFX. While I'm thrilled that we are finally getting are hands on the design tools for XAML. I have to say that I lean more towards using Sparkle.
Here are some things that I would like to see in Cider:
A split screen view of the Design View and the XAML view (think XAMLPad). I'd also like to see a full palette of controls. Simple things like an ellipse to other controls like the inkcanvas are missing.
When you do something bad in your XAML and then pop over to the Design view you'll get a nice reminder that you've done something wrong.
Other gotchas are the fact that you may move a control or change a value in design time and you'll have to go fix it in your XAML view. I'd also like to see the visual tree. That way it's easy to select and access your controls.
As I play around with it a little more, I'll blog about it.