>>If anyone is or has used the Expression Blend 3's XAML editor, PLEASE answer me this:
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>>I've selected / highlighted some text. I now want to MOVE that chunk of text to a new location in the XAML hierarchy. How do I do this using the mouse?
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>>I know this sounds like a stupid question and I'd agree with you, but, for some unknown reason MS didn't make it work the way you or I would think it should, i.e., one would assume that once the text is highlighted, one would then simply drag it to its new location. You know, the same functionality that is found here in the UT editor being used to create this message. No sir. That would be too easy.
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>>Thanks,
>>Mike
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>Mike
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>I feel your pain. Only recently when I posted some queries on WPF I was also steered towards Expression and even VS 2010.
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>While VS2008 (the current one) has drag drop, it does not have true Visual editing and creation. I can create a form and UserControl Visually but when it comes to a class - which is THE basic building block of C# and VB I cannot design it visually in my VISUAL studio. I have to revert to code.
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>Why not ?

I think part of the answer to that is that when using WPF you should rarely, if ever, need to sub-class an element for *visual* reasons - that is usually (and properly) achieved by using Styles/Templates. And, if you use a MVVM pattern, there's no reason to subclass for functional reasons either.

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>There is no way designing in code is easier than doing it visually, or we would not even need VS in the first place and would hand code all our forms etc. using notepad and hopefully after compiling it would all look Ok.
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>This is, for me, going back to the days of Assembly code where you had to compile and run to see the result.
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>By the way, apparently Expression itself is written using WPF and you can see its code in Reflector. Maybe someone will come up with a hack to fix this anomaly.
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>Bernard