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posted by Ben Hayat

btw. Does everyone in Microsoft have those 17" thinkpads or do you just use the same laptops for all the demos on Channel9?

posted by rhm

Those are actually 15" thinkpads (at leat mine is). I only bring mine as a backup ... just in case. We run all demos off the guest's laptop.

posted by jopapa

But I downloaded the latest bits, and I don't have those same options in the Property Grid.  What's up?  Is this a feature that didn't make it into the Release bits?

Thanks,

Rick

posted by dextroart

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60034963@N00/4616274803/

posted by dextroart

The features you are seeing are part of the design-time capabilities for the WPF version of the DataGrid control which I was using at that point in the demonstration.  Unfortunately these features are not yet in the Silverlight version of that control - I will pass along your feedback to the Silverlight team to let them know you'd like to see them in future releases.

Thanks

Mark

posted by PavAtMSFT

I agree with Ben this was a great intro and would also welcome a longer more comprehensive version showing more of what can be done. We've been working in XAML [VS] and now have these great timesaving features. Some capabilities could be discovered rt-clicking everywhere, but more visual demos of what's possible will help us to recall what's possible when needed. IMO.

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posted by Webprofusion

Thanks a lot for all of the interest in seeing more details of the designer features.  There's already a ton of useful material on using the Visual Studio 2010 designer over on our Cider Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsldesigner/pages/learn.aspx - and we are adding more there too, so do keep checking back.

We'll also work with John and others to fill in the gaps and help you be productive - I'd love to hear from you all on the kinds of topics you'd like more detail on - the team monitors the WPF and Silverlight Designer forum, so post away over there.

For those who are coming along to TechEd USA in a few weeks time, you may be interested to hear that myself and Mark Boulter will be giving a session there which covers a number of useful Tips and Tricks for using the designer. We'll show the material I covered in this video plus a number of other topics, and there will be time for questions. We'll also have a full feedback session. Hope to see some of you in New Orleans!

posted by PavAtMSFT

As a newbie in SL I was stunned by the "glossiness" of the buttons in the sample.  Is there anyway I can get to the style code of this sample?

As usual, VS leads in the IDE market! And this graphic editor prooves it again!

Great job Cider!

Great job John!

posted by Yvan

I've installed the new Toolkit and is trying to use the Theme features: I've opened a Theme.xaml file with a ResourceDictionary which contains lots of Styles...

I've then "opened" the designer and is now looking at the Properties window.

No matter were i click/select im not getting any of those style-helpers in the properties window ?!?

I have Visual Studio 2010 Professional + SL4 Tools + SL4 Toolkit  installed

what am i doing wrong ?

Thanks

posted by M. Kirk

I "borrowed" the styles for those buttons from the Family.Show sample (which is actually a WPF sample app).

You can find it's code on Codeplex at http://familyshow.codeplex.com/ 

You might also find the Blacklight controls (http://blacklight.codeplex.com/ , showcased at http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/) useful for this sort of look and feel.

Mark

posted by PavAtMSFT

Sorry you're having trouble getting this to work.  

Whenever a XAML Window, Page or UserControl is loaded in design view (i.e. you can see the design pane with a preview of your design or the Intentionally Left Blank message), the Properties Window should be active if it is shown, and show the Property Marker for all properties in view for the selected piece of XAML (wherever your cursor is in the XAML file). 

If the page in question is a resource dictionary, like the one I showed in the video, you will need to use the same trick I did in the video to get the Properties Window to "light up" - show the split view, then click on the design pane (which doesn't show by default for RDs). Do this by:

1. Clicking on the split view button in the splitter bar which contains the Design and XAML Tabs (there are two split view buttons at the right hand end of the splitter bar, one vertical and one horizontal - vertical looks like a box with a vertical line through the middle, the horizontal the same with a horizontal line through the middle)

2. Clicking on the Grey "Intentionally Left Blank" view shown in the Design tab

This should "wake up" the Properties Window for the Resource Dictionary.

Once the Properties Window is "lit up", the property marker (the little widget to the right of the label for each property and to the left of its value) should allow you to click on it and see "Apply Resource" (along with Apply Databinding, Reset Value, and Go To Value Definition) in the drop down menu.

Click on Apply Resource in the Property Marker menu, to see the resource picker window.

If you do this for a Style, the picker will show the available styles.

Hope this helps!

If not, can you say whether you are not seeing the property marker, not seeing the picker when you click Apply Resource, or not seeing your resources in the picker once it appears?

Thanks

Mark

posted by PavAtMSFT

If you couldn't make TechEd USA in New Orleans, you can see the talk we gave on tips and tricks for using the designer there online now:

http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/DEV313

Hope you find it interesting!

Mark 

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