Posted By: Adam Kinney | Nov 21st, 2008 @ 11:25 AM | 92,438 Views | 17 Comments
Karl Shifflett brought one of his favorite Hawaiian shirts and his XAML Power Toys in to the studio and it was time to play.  Karl demonstrates how to use his Visual Studio Add-In to instantly generate forms for Line of Business applications.

Since the filming of this video Karl has since updated XAML Power Toys to now support Silverlight 2 as well as WPF.  Karl has also recorded 11 videos of his own (available half way down the XAML Power Toys page) to help you get started with this useful and customizable tool.
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Will this work in the Express editions?


I just finished watching the video and this tool is AWESOME!
Holy cow, that's really really nice. And he is damn smart.
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Where can I get that Wumpus sticker?

Edit: not meant as a reply to ecofriend..
Very cool idea and thank goodness somebody realized that there needs to be an insert row/column for grids (when is this going into Blend?).  Looks like it was really well executed, too, so thanks for all of that.

On the other hand, I think that whoever edited the video needs to understand that there is zero interest in watching two guys staring at a laptop, and FAR more interest in what is actually going on in the screen of that laptop.  After the typing began and before the final "goodbyes", I was extremely frustrated as he did who knows what to actually create the XAML because I was looking at him talking about it rather than the screen when that occurred.  Ditto for lots of other key points in the demo.  There was never a point where I was really curious about what it looked like to see them talking, so keep the camera on the screen please.
I'm sorry to have sounded a little harsh, but as constructive criticism, I really never found myself looking at the screen and wondering about what the commentators were doing at that particular moment.  If nothing were going on with the screen and the commentators were addressing the camera, it makes sense to cut back, but as long as they're doing nothing more than staring at the laptop and something is being typed on the screen, I really don't see any reason or interest in cutting away from the screen and devoting a third of the video to a static image of them staring at the screen seems like overkill to me.  Just my two cents, and sorry again about sounding harsh.  Sometimes I slip into "sarcastic" without even meaning to.
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!
Another cool episode of Continuum. I really like this format.
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