DesignerHost for WPF
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in Forms there is a DesignerHost and DesignSurface class for developers who want to build their own app for UI-design. what exist for WPF? which classes or samples? Thanks Frank
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in Forms there is a DesignerHost and DesignSurface class for developers who want to build their own app for UI-design. what exist for WPF? which classes or samples? Thanks Frank
Well, you can always host your application inside the Visual Studio shell (see here[^]). I'm not sure that the Cider designer is available for developers as a standalone set of classes yet. It wasn't when 3.0 was released, and I haven't seen anything to indicate that this has changed. [Edit] OK - this section is a bit of information as to why there isn't a readily accessible equivalent to DesignerHost and DesignSurface for WPF. Basically, as you are aware, the DesignerHost and DesignSurface classes are part of the .NET framework, while the Cider designer is actually part of Visual Studio rather than the core framework. This means that Microsoft has all sorts of issues, such as licensing, that have to be sorted out. This is why the WPF designer in Visual Studio is a feasible route - basically, if I were you I'd look at using the Visual Studio shell in Isolated mode. I've done quite a bit of playing about with Visual Studio development and, once you get used to it, it's really powerful and really flexible. [/Edit]
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modified on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:51 PM