Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

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Adam Caudill’s Blog » Starting in WPF? — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:48:47 GMT

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re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Philip Rieck — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:02:09 GMT

Wonderful list of tools needed for any WPF developer. Although, I'd suggest other fonts as well - I find that switching between proggy square, inconsolata, consolas, etc.. gives me a little "boost" every time I switch.

And, since you have the words "developer workstation" right in the description (and correct I may add), any chance of nudging the MSDN bean counters and saying "hey, Blend is indeed a developer tool"? Not having it included in MSDN is really, really frustrating to us that already accepted a nice big slap already with the different editions. If so, thanks!

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Ramanujam Sampath — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:15:45 GMT

Chk out the application called snoop. This has helped me to find where some of the events are driven. I am not sure where this came from. I got it from my fellow worker and it has helped me a lot. I will post a comment tomorrow after I find where this can be downloaded from.

-sr

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Florian Krüsch — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:12:47 GMT

very useful!

One question, how do you actually "set the Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache system service to Automatic (Delayed Start) " ?

Is this a registry key or a build switch ins VS?

Building a perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Mental block — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:27:15 GMT

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Per iniziare a lavorare con WPF

Pietro Brambati Blog — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:07:53 GMT

Per chi vuole iniziare a lavorare con WPF e si sta chidendo: cosa serve a Visual Studio 2005? Dove posso

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

William — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:33:48 GMT

Add IronPython to that list. Much faster for "playing around" with WPF constructs than going through the code-compile-repeat process of using VB or C#. This is great for learning, as well as for just trying something out quickly to see how it would work. Then you can code it for real in your language of choice (C# of course).

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Don wolfe — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:40:05 GMT

Check ou xamlpadX - updated version of xamlpad (http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2006/10/31/XamlPad-Xtended-_2800_with-an-interpreter_2900_.aspx)

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

tims — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:42:18 GMT

Ramanujam, thanks for reminding me about Snoop - added!

WPF...Rock On!

10 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:49:05 GMT

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

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Parker — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:44:34 GMT

Why Expressions? If you're going to have Visual Studio 2005, it's the same functionality.

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Frank P — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:33:42 GMT

XamlpadX is a must.. beats xamlpad any day

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Alex Young — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:43:36 GMT

Please, for the love of all things holy, add a testing framework to that box... Generations of maintenance coders hence will thank you...

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Kurt Brockett — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:11:07 GMT

Tim this is great. Here is an email I send to any of the developers I work with when they ask about WPF:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My Five Day Course For Hitting the WPF Curve/Cliff

This was put together by Karsten Januszewski, a WPF evangelist over at Microsoft. The first day is really for everyone. There’s really some good content in this post.

http://blogs.msdn.com/karstenj/archive/2006/06/15/632639.aspx

Building a perfect WPF Developer Workstation

One of the hurdles many people run into is just getting their development system up and running. Tim Sneath (our initial MSFT contact on WPF) put together a set of “perfect” items needed for a new Dev Workstation.

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

Optimizing WPF Application Performance

It gives a bunch of do’s and don’t regarding performance. We joked that it’s kind of like the WPF bible of explaining what NOT to do.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa970683.aspx

Hope that helps some!

Kurt

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

GRiNSER — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:39:42 GMT

you can get the consolas font with a special download at microsoft for visual studio 2005 too!

i'm sorry i haven't got it at hand but you can find it easily in the ms download center.

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

tims — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:37:10 GMT

Thanks for all the feedback so far: I've incorporated some good suggestions, including the standalone link for the Consolas font and XamlPadX in place of the regular XamlPad.

In response to Parker's query, Expression Blend has a number of features that VS doesn't have in the current release (for example, editing styles and creating templates are manual operations in VS but supported by the Blend editor). Over time, you can certainly expect the two tools to come much closer to feature parity but remaining focused on their respective designer / developer audiences.

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Robby Ingebretsen — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:40:03 GMT

Another alternative to XamlPad is Kaxaml. You can get it here: http://notstatic.com/archives/64

New and Notable 132

Sam Gentile — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:47:22 GMT

A special Christmas Eve version to clean out my Feed Demon box as I will be on vacation next week and

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

svetz — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:48:49 GMT

I luv xamlpadx. it has the same feel of xamlpad but has more funtionality thn kaxaml. The interpreter is sweet.

Nice compile Tim

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Samiq — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:27:01 GMT

Ping back from samiqbits.blogspot.com

<i>As I've been blogging before I am working with WPF for a personal project. This has nothing to do with my 8-5 job, but is a nice thing to be doing in my spare time; anyway, the reason of this post is that by looking around I found this entry by Tim Sneath...</i>

Appunti di WPF: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

di .NET e di altre Amenit — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:19:52 GMT

Appunti di WPF: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

John D — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:05:21 GMT

FYI XamlPadX v2 is out.. (http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo) .. its got some sweet new features :) Happy new year

To do: Create perfect WPF workstation

Mark Johnston's Developer Experiences — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:12:57 GMT

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

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Andrew Jones — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:55:46 GMT

I've just downloaded the Oracs (sorry Orcas - watched too much Blake 7 as a kid) Jan CTP but it does not seem to support the creation of WPF apps. Can you explain what you need to create WPF on Orcas.

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

tims — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:02:09 GMT

Hi Andrew, the WPF designer isn't in the January CTP of Orcas, but you should see it in the next CTP. For now, Visual Studio 2005 is the best place to be. That's why you can't see it!

Tim

完全なWPFデヴェロッパー向けワークステーションを作る

OPC Diary — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:05:42 GMT

Tim Sneath : Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation このブログ記事では、完全なWPFデヴェロッパー向けワークステーションを構築するために必要なものがまとめら

完全なWPFデヴェロッパー向けワークステーションを作る

OPC Diary — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:14:17 GMT

Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:23:31 GMT

Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

WPF-Werkzeugkasten

ASP.NET Deutsch Blogs — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:38:00 GMT

Wer sich, wie ich, für WPF interessiert, und damit entwickeln will, braucht wie immer ein Set von Tools,

Interesting Finds: January 27, 2007

Jason Haley — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:21:10 GMT

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Shawn WIldermuth — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:24:19 GMT

When I install the Windows SDK, I don't get an option in the menu to integrate the two MSDN's. Any reason you can think of (or maybe a manual way of doing it?) (swildermuth@adoguy.com)

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Richard Cunday — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:21:43 GMT

Another tool to capture your excellent WPF work:

http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2007/01/28/window-clippings-1-5.aspx

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Josh Smith — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:20:37 GMT

Hi Tim,

Thanks a lot for putting this list together. I have two pieces of feedback, if you're interested.

- I think it would be very helpful if you were to give a suggested hardware configuration for WPF development. Not just the minimum reqs, but also what type of machine would help make the WPF dev experience smooth and quick.

- In the "Building a Code Toolbox" section, perhaps you might consider listing the WPF.JoshSmith library: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WPFJoshSmith.asp

Thanks again,

Josh Smith

Revisiting First WPF Program on Vista

Sam Gentile — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:13:34 GMT

Way back on Sep. 7th of last year, I published an entry on writing your first WPF program on Vista .

ככה תלמדו WPF

It's All About Causality — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:22:50 GMT

קניתי את שתי הספרים שיש כרגע, הנה ההמלצה שלי: בניגוד לאלון שהמליץ המלצה חמה על הספר של Petzold - אני

Updated WPF Resources List

WPF Team Bloggers — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:08:32 GMT

I just updated the simple list of useful WPF Resources on the top left of rrelyea.spaces.live.com . Part

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Dale — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:15:01 GMT

Expression Blend and Expression Design on a developer workstation? While I agree whole-heartedly, apparently the MSDN team, except you, don't feel the same as we do. Perhaps you can influence them!

Great article. Thanks for posting it.

Dale

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re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Dale — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:52:39 GMT

I just installed Consolas font at your suggestion. It really looks awful! But at least I can undo the setting.

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

C Gomez — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:55:38 GMT

Sounds like that's just your opinion. Just my opinion is: "Once I installed Consolas, I went and set it as the default in every text editor I own."

Opinions are okay.

Costruisci la tua workstation per WPF

Around and About .NET World — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:33:19 GMT

re: Building a Perfect WPF Developer Workstation

Brett — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:28:51 GMT

@ Dale (Regarding Consolas looking "awful")

Turn on ClearType.

[翻译] 构建完美的WPF开发工作站

Tony Qu — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:10:38 GMT

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

[翻译] 构建完美的WPF开发工作站

Tony Qu — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:23:36 GMT

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:)

[翻译] 构建完美的WPF开发工作站

Tony Qu — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:04:44 GMT

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！

Some Resources on WPF

Ashish Thapliyal's Blog — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:04:52 GMT

I've been asked many time about real world application with WPF. Channel9 has the comprehensive list.

转载：构建完美的WPF开发工作站

Netprawn — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:00:01 GMT

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...

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