wkempf said:
The only feature I care about from the IDE at this point is a usable WPF designer.  Everything else is either already there, or available as an addin from somewhere.  I don't need/want new features, I want bug fixes and performance improvements. Smiley
Hi wkempf!

Thanks for your comments. I'm part of the WPF designer team. On bugfixes and performance issues help is already at hand in the form of the release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (see our video at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/AdamKinney/WPF-35-SP1-Tools-with-Erick-Ellis-and-Mark-Wilson-Thomas/ for some details of the kind of stuff we've been fixing - but in broad terms expect to see a lot less XAML load failures, and snappier startup perf thanks to the work the WPF platform team have been doing). Have you had a chance to look at the SP yet?

If there are particular bugs and issues you'd like to see fixed or you have other feedback on the designer please drop me an email at mwthomas AT microsoft DOT com.... we're working on our new release as we speak.  What would be your number one feature to make the WPF designer more usable in the next release?

Thanks,

Mark Wilson-Thomas
PM WPF + SL Designer Team, Visual Studio.