Visual Studio / Blend... how you organize that?
- by TomTom
Virst time more complex stuff in WPF. I am a little lost on the split betwen VS and Blend.
It seems I am VERY limited with editors in Visual Studio for editing controls - when customizing, for example, it seems I Can enter astyle in XML... but in blend I Can tell it to make a copy of the CURRENT style and use that as a starter, definitely more convenient.
I understand the "difference in focus", but it seems to me that i Really need both tools to work, especially if the controls I Do are:
More complex
Not user controls "on purpose" (to allow more customization by programmes using the application).
THis means when I do a control, my approach would be:
Work on the backend as good as it gets without front end (i.e. implement all methods needed etc., but can be dummies)
Switch over to Blend (closing visual studio - as the projcet must be closed)
Put in the initial templating
Switch over to VIsual Studio (closing blend)
Put logic in and debug.
This seems pretty counterintuitively.
Am I missing something obvious here?
