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Making the Most of the Microsoft Silverlight and WPF Designer in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Mark Wilson-Thomas & Mark Boulter
Program Managers, Silverlight & WPF Designer Team
Microsoft Corporation
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2. What You’ll Learn From This Talk
Visual Studio 2010 WPF and Silverlight Designer Tips and Tricks for Productivity
Using designer features even when editing XAML
Using the data and sample data features of the designer
Common designer load issues and how to avoid them

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Demo 1: Using the Properties Window for Fun and Profit, Whether in Design or XAML View
Mark Wilson-Thomas Program Manager, Silverlight & WPF Designer Team Microsoft Corporatio
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4. Recap: Key Points from Demo 1
Use the Properties Window to get help and direction whether in the design view or the XAML view
Activate the designer when in a Resource Dictionary or App.xaml to get help from the Properties Window
Answering the question “Why is my button Red” by using Go To Definition
Style IntelliSense
Using multi-select with the Doc Outline to change a value across many elements

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Demo 2: Building up a Data Centric Application Scaffolding, Sample Data, Customization, Styling
Mark Boulter Program Manager, Silverlight & WPF Designer Team Microsoft Corporation
DEMO
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6. Demo 2: Product Catalog Application
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Demo 2: Product Catalog Application
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7. Recap: Key Points from Demo 2
Use the Data Source Window to quickly create your UI
Use the Binding Picker and Sample Data to easily set up and understand your Bindings at design time
Use the “Data Can” to find and configure your DataSource
Use Find/Apply Styles and Resources with Resource Picker
Use Sample Data, a “Debug Converter” and the new Trace options dialog to track down and fix binding errors

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How To Make Your Application “Safe for Design Time” Avoiding Common Pitfalls that Stop the Designer Loading 
Mark Boulter Program Manager, Silverlight & WPF Designer Team Microsoft Corporation
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9. Things to know Look @ the help when you get a load error
Your code design time (but not always) 
What does run: Everything that gets created in the XAML
Instances of Controls and UserControls
ValueConverters
Classes referenced as resources
What does not run: The top level thing you are designing
Window, UserControl, Page etc. when you are designing it
Your Application class

10. Common errors
The most common cause of issues is assuming a runtime environment
Examples:
a UserControl instance calling a web service
a ValueConverter accessing a value that does not design time
trying to access a resource from code behind that only exists on the real instance
trying to access properties on objects that we don’t design time
trying to read files relative to the application root

11. Debugging tips Look @ the exception information in the gold bar
If you get a load failure screen the whole stack trace
Use a second copy of VS to debug the first
Turn off “Just my code”
Add the “Attach to Process” command if needed
Delete the .suo file or bin and obj directories to avoid crashes on start up

12. Debugging tips Look @ the exception information in the gold bar
If you get a load failure screen the whole stack trace
Use a second copy of VS to debug the first
Turn off “Just my code”
Add the “Attach to Process” command if needed
Delete the .suo file or bin and obj directories to avoid crashes on start up

13. How to turn things off
Use DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode (WPF & SL)
Use DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool (SL)
Use d:DesignInstance or d:DesignData to enable databinding design time without creating instances of your classes

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Demo3: How To Make Your Application “Safe for Design Time” Avoiding Common Pitfalls that Stop the Designer Loading 
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15. Recap: Key Points from Demo 3:
Common places where your code can cause issues
Constructors for Hosted Controls (UserControl, Page etc)
Convertors
DataTemplate Selectors
UserControl Load Methods
Use GetIsInDesignMode to branch round code that shouldn’t run at Design Time
Debug design time issues by:
Using the Designer Goldbar
Attaching a second Visual Studio instance

16.  Summary
Use the Prop Window to get help editing and navigating whether using Designer or XAML editor
Use Design Time Data (Sample Data) for a better experience designing your app
Use the Data Sources Window for an easy app scaffolding experience, customize with the Data Binding Picker and Resource Picker
Make your app safe for design time by trapping issues in Constructors and Converters 

17. Useful Resources
WPF and Silverlight Designer Team Blog (Learning, FAQs, Announcements)
Includes a post and source code for the sample application we built
Upcoming post with much more detail on use of Sample Data
Silverlight and WPF Designer Forum
The best place to interact with the team or

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