Help us improve WPF and UWP XAML designer

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  Mikhail Nikitin June 9, 2020 9:43 pm 0

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  I am totally for the design-time data.
  Another thing I am missing is the ability to edit all included elements, not just Content. Including their styles and templates. In general, style and template editing needs a caring hand.

  Probably off-topic, but bringing Live Tree View on-par with SnoopWpf would also be quite useful. E.g. LTV does not show parts of the standard templates, which makes manipulating them impossible. 2020, I am still using a seemingly discontinued SnoopWpf.

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  Seddik Mohammed June 23, 2020 1:15 am 0

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  • Make xaml designer detect the resources names from other referenced assemblies.
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  Larvoire, Jean-Francois June 23, 2020 9:09 am 0

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  A suggestion for making it much easier to edit XAML without changing anything to the XAML internals:
  I’ve published an open-source tool for converting any XML file into a much simpler format called SML. This SML format is completely equivalent to the original XML, but much simpler for humans to read and edit. The XML <->> SML conversion is completely reversible, as both are different representations of the same DOM tree.
  For example, here’s an XAML sample from Microsoft own documentation:

  <Label>
      <Label.Text>
          Hello, XAML!
      </Label.Text>
      <Label.FontAttributes>
          Bold
      </Label.FontAttributes>
      <Label.FontSize>
          Large
      </Label.FontSize>
      <Label.TextColor>
          Aqua
      </Label.TextColor>
      <Label.VerticalOptions>
          Center
      </Label.VerticalOptions>
  </Label>

  Piping the above text sample into the sml2.exe conversion tool generates that:

  C:\JFL\Temp>1clip | sml2 -f
  Label {
    Label.Text "
          Hello, XAML!
      "
    Label.FontAttributes "
          Bold
      "
    Label.FontSize "
          Large
      "
    Label.TextColor "
          Aqua
      "
    Label.VerticalOptions "
          Center
      "
  }
  
  C:\JFL\Temp

  And if you ask sml2.exe to trim the non-significant spaces that were introduced only to improve the legibility in the original XML, this becomes even considerably simpler:

  C:\JFL\Temp>1clip | sml2 -f -t
  Label {
    Label.Text "Hello, XAML!"
    Label.FontAttributes Bold
    Label.FontSize Large
    Label.TextColor Aqua
    Label.VerticalOptions Center
  }
  
  C:\JFL\Temp>

  And proof of the reversibility, piping that a second time into the sml2.exe program, to convert the data back to XAML yields:

  C:\JFL\Temp>1clip | sml2 -f -t | sml2
  <Label>
    <Label.Text>Hello, XAML!</Label.Text>
    <Label.FontAttributes>Bold</Label.FontAttributes>
    <Label.FontSize>Large</Label.FontSize>
    <Label.TextColor>Aqua</Label.TextColor>
    <Label.VerticalOptions>Center</Label.VerticalOptions>
  </Label>
  
  C:\JFL\Temp>

  So you could provide an option in the XAML designer for users to dynamically convert the XAML representation they see into one format or the other.
  This changes nothing for your internal data format, which remains XAML. But users would have an option to see and edit something much simpler.

  The sml2.exe tool is available there: https://github.com/JFLarvoire/libxml2/releases
  And the SML data format is documented in a paper there: https://archive.xmlprague.cz/2018/files/xmlprague-2018-proceedings.pdf (Page 137 “SML – A simpler and shorter representation of XML”)

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  Espinass Galler June 23, 2020 2:22 pm 0

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  What will be the suggested platform for making Micrsoft Store apps
  I have a site that is based on WordPress And I’m going to transfer it
  What is your suggestion?
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  Wesley Hatler July 13, 2020 2:41 pm 0

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  I just wish some of the UWP improvements were available for WPF. One thing i would absolutely love to see is conditional Xaml available for WPF. I can do version adaptive code in WPF but conditional Xaml just isn’t available for WPF when it totally should be

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  Ali Warraich July 14, 2020 11:02 am 0

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  Ability to create example data just for the designer preview without extending our own code. For example right click on listview and “generate example data” which fills the same by whatever the datasource is bound to (simply calling their ctors). This is useful for keeping our own code clean but still being able to preview something on the designer which is only generated on runtime otherwise.home write for us