Sorry if my question is not realated to CSLA and too dummy.
I have Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed. I tried to create a Sliverlight project, by default it created page.xaml. I was trying to put a button (From Silverlight XAML Controls), but I cannot. Do I must use Expression Blend to do that? Or did I do something wrongly?
Thanks for any advice!
paupdb:
Strictly speaking, no you don't need Blend in order to create WPF/Silverlight applications. But currently there isn't any "drag and drop" support in VS2008 for Silverlight controls, so you have to hand code the XAML yourself.
Blend is aimed at designing and since Microsoft can sell two products instead of one, its unlikely that they will ever give VS the same level of tooling for design work.
Its like building web pages. You could just hand code the html yourself in notepad, or you could use something like Front Page or DreamWeaver to create the page graphically.
Blend is the Front Page of XAML, and VS is destined to be a jumped up XAML notepad with some intellisense.
Thanks for the information.
Did you use VS designer or just edited XAML directly?
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Subject: [CSLA .NET] Do I need Expression Blend?
Sorry if my question is not realated to CSLA and too dummy.
I have Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed. I
tried to create a Sliverlight project, by default it created page.xaml. I was
trying to put a button (From Silverlight XAML Controls), but I cannot. Do I
must use Expression Blend to do that? Or did I do something wrongly?
Thanks for any advice!