Cecil --
I've been tinkering with VS 2010, SL 4 and Microsoft's RIA framework (all still in various beta stages.) I must say that for my purposes VS is finally coming to a point where Line of Business (LOB) applications are definitely doable.
IMO, with WPF Microsoft took a huge step backwards in the IDE department, because WPF development relies heavily on either XAML coding (yechhh!) or Blend editor (try doing LOB productively with that!) Now they are finally getting back to an earlier milestone where visual editing is back. Now if we could only have visual class editing and complete class inheritance, as well as a few handy functions such as ASELOBJ() as well as easy ways to create builders, we would be approaching VFP programming productivity... Ha -- the WPF abbreviation actually looks eerily similar to VFP! There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere, I'm sure ;-)
However, the future with VS looks bright to me at least now that various important missing pieces are falling into place. I can't wait for RTM versions of these three critical systems! Write-once-deploy-mostly may be close to a realized dream.
Pertti
>Man, I am real glad to hear of these improvements. Does this mean that VS 2010 now has this, I mean Beta 2? I don't see anything but Silverlight 3.0 in VS 2010. I am reading your url reference now.
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>A little later... I just downloaded the Silverlight 4.0 Beta. This should be great!
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>And a little later..I just tried out the StackPanel in VS2010 and it does have the property sheet available, whereas in VS 2008 it is not available. This is great! Very cool stuff!!!
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>Cecil
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>>In VS2010 it's supposed to share designers with WPF which does support properties.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613588(VS.100).aspx#wpf_and_silverlight_designer>
>>"Improved Support for Silverlight
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>>In Visual Studio 2008, you could install the Silverlight Tools to create Silverlight applications in Visual Studio. However, the designer support for Silverlight projects was limited. In Visual Studio 2010, the designer support for Silverlight and WPF projects are now the same. For example, in Silverlight projects you can now select and position items with the mouse on the design surface."
