WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta

re: WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta

jhanford — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:18:20 GMT

You have to add the ability to insert a row or column on a WPF Grid. Trying to refine layout or modifying an existing layout to add new controls is extremely tedious.

The capability is there in WindowsForms TableLayoutPanel which works (at least from the designer perspective) similarly to the WPF Grid with Column and Row dependency properties.

This one thing is causing our design team to ignore WPF as they see it as not very RAD.

re: WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta

Mark Wilson-Thomas — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:25:46 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. We are considering the feature you describe for a future release of the designer.

If you have any other WPF Designer feedback we'd love to hear it over on the designers MSDN forum http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=169&SiteID=1.

Thanks

Mark Wilson-Thomas

Program Manager, WPF Designer, Visual Studio

re: WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta

tims — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:53:33 GMT

...and don't forget to check out the video interview with Mark and Erick from the team here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=404726

Tim

re: WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta

AgeKay — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:35:51 GMT

Since installing both .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta and VS 2008 SP1 Beta, the WPF designer (cider) and my compiled WPF applications do not use the Windows Theme set on my computer, which is Vista Aero, but "Classic" instead. So when developing my app now, I know feel like I am programming on Windows 95. I can force the use of the Vista Aero theme with the method described here though: http://arbel.net/blog/archive/2006/11/03/Forcing-WPF-to-use-a-specific-Windows-theme.aspx . But that's not very clean as you might imagine. Is this a known bug or am I the only one that is experiencing this side effect?

re: WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta

jgalasyn — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:00:17 GMT

Hi AgeKay,

Thanks for visiting. We're pursuing this issue internally. It appears to be a platform issue, as Cider doesn't do anything to force the theme.

I'll post an update when I hear more.

Jim Galasyn

re: WPF Designer: Changes and Fixes in VS2008 SP1 Beta

jgalasyn — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:24:12 GMT

AgeKay,

Do the released versions of SP1 (VS and .NET) continue to have this problem? You can install these from http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2008/08/11/visual-studio-2008-sp1-and-net-framework-3-5-sp1-are-live.aspx.

Jim