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Visual Studio .NET 2008 - XAML Designer


By Robbe Morris
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Visual Studio .NET 2008 is an extreme disappointment for me. Its performance is attrocious and the XAML designer support is "weak" to say the very least... "pathetic" if one were to be honest.

The designer is so bad I almost never use it.  In fact, I never drag and drop controls from the toolbox.  I just rely on my knowledge of the tags and intellisense in the XAML editor.

What infuriates me is that people on the Visual Studio .NET development team put this app through the testing phase, watched this poor performance again and again, and then said "looks good to me... ship it".

I've found that just simply opening the XAML files in XAML mode still takes forever...

See the following link for a potential workaround:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/46a45a61-922b-4c88-a3df-6a70af3be665/visual-studio-net-2008-.aspx

The video below best describes my emotions while making this submission.






Biography - Robbe Morris
Robbe has been a Microsoft MVP in C# since 2004. He is also the co-founder of EggHeadCafe.com which provides .NET articles, book reviews, software reviews, and software download and purchase advice.

Robbe Morris posted at 17-Aug-08 11:17

 
FeedBack Discussion: Visual Studio .NET 2008 - XAML Designer