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XamlPadX v2

Season's greetings guys :) Hope your Christmas was great. Ok so before we go into the next year I thought I'll take a look at XamlPadX since it will get a bit tough to spend some time on it in the next year. So XamlpadX v2 looks like:


New features:
1> Line numbers in the Editing box
2> Written xaml can now be indented automatically(Ctrl I or right click and click on the menu item)
3> Closing tags are automatically generated (Note that it doesnt look forward while generating the closing tag. This is to keep it as simple as possible)
    So if you have something like <A </A> and then type in the '>' after the first A you will end up with <A></A></A>.
4> Theres an Open/Save File menu for opening/saving the xaml from/in different locations
5> A snazzy splash screen :)
6> Vista-ish app icon

The exe is attached (unfortunately xamlpad code is not yet public). However, I will soon be posting some of the features (like the color picker) as independent tools with the code. :). Also bear in mind that the exe runs faster after the first run (during which some resources are saved in the local folder). 

Have fun and Happy New Year.

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Posted: Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:37 by llester
Attachment(s): XamlpadX.zip

Comments

Tomi B. said:

Nice, though if I remember correctly the Vista UX guidelines say you shouldn't have a splash screen ;)

# December 30, 2006 1:02 PM

Jesse Zhao said:

Nice Work.

# December 30, 2006 11:19 PM

llester said:

the splash screen is just to provide feedback to the user that somethings happenning.... :)

# December 31, 2006 1:24

DotNetKicks.com said:

You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

# December 31, 2006 4:22 PM

Around and About .NET World said:

# January 2, 2007 5:09

Tim Sneath said:

OK, so you've just decided that WPF is the strategic technology of choice for your next-generation application,

# January 2, 2007 5:27 PM

Mark Johnston's Developer Experiences said:

Thanks to Tim I've probably got a few bits and pieces to install to get my machine up to dream spec for

# January 3, 2007 4:12 PM

ゆむかブログ said:

Lester's WPF blog : XamlPadX v2 より。 XamlPadXのv2がリリースされています。 新機能は、行番号の表示、自動インデント、タグを自動で閉じるなどです。

# January 5, 2007 12:42

Rob said:

er... wouldn't it be good if there were intellisense just like snippetcompiler ;)</hint>

can't we cut and paste the code from snippet compiler into xamlpadX2 and get snipxamcompad2? ;)

# January 8, 2007 3:10 PM

llester said:

thats a possibility rob..but then the snippet would be a winform control.. so it would be necessary to host it in elementhost and this makes the perf not so desirable when events are firing constantly.

Also I could make the intellisense enabled with the syntax coloring by putting a RTB instead of a textbox. But for perf reasons a textbox is the best.

# January 10, 2007 1:18 PM

Josh Smith said:

Wow!  XamlPadX v2 is awesome!! :D

Thanks a lot for publishing it.  The Style Snooper, Color Picker, and Command Interpreter tools will definitely come in handy.

What is the 'Core Xaml' tab for?  I didn't see any help text explaining what you would use it for.

Thanks again.

# January 11, 2007 7:50

Josh Smith said:

Wow!  XamlPadX v2 is awesome!! :D

Thanks a lot for publishing it.  The Style Snooper, Color Picker, and Command Interpreter tools will definitely come in handy.

What is the 'Core Xaml' tab for?  I didn't see any help text explaining what you would use it for.

Thanks again.

# January 11, 2007 7:51

llester said:

The core xaml is how the xamlwriter saves the xaml... gives an idea as to how the object is being saved.. its more a testing featur rather than a dev feature :)

# January 11, 2007 11:09 PM

Around and About .NET World said:

# January 17, 2007 4:18 PM

Code Factory said:

Para empezar a trabajar con .NET 3.0 y con Windows Presentation Foundation hay que tener una buena máquina

# January 25, 2007 3:16

Dot-A-Lot said:

[via Tim Sneath]Base Environment Windows Vista, of course! (although I'll concede that Windows XP Service...

# January 28, 2007 6:13 PM

Tony Qu said:

原文：http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/12/20/building-a-perfect-wpf-developer-workstation.aspx原文...

# April 17, 2007 8:10 PM

Tony Qu said:

Tim Sneath又一篇经典WPF贴，让我们能够了解WPF顶级开发人员平时用哪些工具、看哪些示例、有哪些独门秘笈，虽然这篇文章不长，但确实很有用，看了就明白了:)

# April 17, 2007 8:23 PM

Tony Qu said:

摘要: Tim Sneath又一篇经典WPF贴，让我们能够了解WPF顶级开发人员平时用哪些工具、看哪些示例、有哪些独门秘笈，虽然这篇文章不长，但确实很有用，看了就明白了:) 有翻译得不好的地方还请指出！

# April 19, 2007 6:04 PM

.Net said:

Electric Rain den ZAM 3D Mobiform Software den Aurora XAML Designer ...

# April 20, 2007 7:15 PM

Netprawn said:

转载：构建完美的WPF开发工作站 原文：http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/12/20/building-a-perfect-wpf-develo...

# September 14, 2007 2:01

Lester's WPF blog said:

Current version of XamlPadX Version2.5 Older Versions Version2 Version 1.5 Version 1

# November 19, 2007 4:13 PM
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