MUST HAVE: XAML Power Toys

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Depending on how many blogs you read, you’ll be seeing a barrage of “Silverlight 2 released” posts today.  If you haven’t seen it already, make sure you check Scott Guthrie’s post about the release at https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-released.aspx. 

Karl Shifflet just updated his XAML Power Toys to support the Silverlight 2 release.  If you are doing any WPF or Silverlight development, then I HIGHLY RECOMMEND downloading the power toys.  They greatly enhance the developer experience inside of Visual Studio.  Here’s the first paragraph from Karl’s page:

“XAML Power Toys is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Multi-AppDomain Add-In that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor.  Its Line of Business form generation tools, Grid tools,  DataGrid and ListView generation really shorten the XAML page layout time.”

-Marc