This post provides information on a few high profile Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate bugs and some additional information that will help developers have a successful experience with the WPF & Silverlight Designer. Table of Contents Known Issues...

If you have installed Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate and have experienced one or more crashes while editing Code or XAML please install the below hot fix.  The crashes are related to IntelliSense displaying. Hot Fix:  http://code.msdn...

Silverlight 3 projects are supported with the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate build – however Silverlight 4 projects are not yet supported. We will be adding Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate support for Silverlight 4 with the next public Silverlight...

The new boot from vhd feature that shipped in Windows 7 and Server 2008 has now given developers new options for setting up a test systems with different versions of Visual Studio. For the purpose of this post, local system is the vhd boot volume and...

Known Issue When writing ListBoxItem triggers in a style that trigger on the ListBox.AlternationIndex attached property value, if you use the valid syntax ListBox.AlternationIndex like the first trigger below, the designer will display the following error...

The WPF Expander control has a header and a collapsible window that developers can use in several different ways.  One technique is to place multiple Expander controls in a StackPanel to create a UI region of expanding sections,  Another technique...

Introduction The purpose of the post is to provide guidance for control authors to limit the controls added to the Toolbox and that are listed in the Choose Items Dialog. The word "controls" in this post is defined as "any public type in...