Re: Working With WPF in D2007/D2008?

I.P. Nichols wrote:
"Craig Stuntz [TeamB]" wrote:
Markus.Humm wrote:
Bernhard Geyer schrieb:
> No IDE-Support in D2007 and currently not on roadmap for D2008

Afaik not officially supported but doable, just without proper
designers etc.

Designer in VS.NET isn't much, either.

It's quite handy if one learns how to properly use it as shown in this reference.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb546194.aspx


I don't think that Cider is good for anything except showing you what you just wrote in XAML (which is nice).
But the XAML code editor is quite good, allowing you to jump to event handler code and creating event handlers on the fly while you are editing the markup.
XAML is like HTML, a vis. designer tends to seriously limit what you can do with it. And the markup it generates is usually much, much more ugly, complex and prone to layout misbehavior than hand written markup.

Use Blend.

Easier said than done since Blend doesn't know about Delphi but does integrate nicely into Visual Studio 2008/2005 with C# or VB.NET.


Blend only cares about MSBuild projects:
http://www.remobjects.com/zoomimage.asp?id=%7BBD8B19A5%2DB1DE%2D4068%2D9B31%2D598F72BC8DF2%7D

However, WPF-generated code can contain more than one namespace per file, which is probably impossible with Delphi.
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