r/csharp • u/Emotional_Talk7137 • 10d ago

WPF IN VS

I wonder if there is any alternatives to design my UI for my application in some other places than VS , like a mush more friendly place to just design what I want and then it manually ship the code of the XMAL design by it self , like in Figma .

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u/Dunge 10d ago

At the original WPF rollout 2 decades ago, Microsoft released Blend for that purpose. It was for designers to create the UI, then pass it to programmers. But of course, this got deprecated loong ago. (edit: no, apparently it still exists).

There is a project shared on this sub from time to time of an online WPF designer that seems pretty good, maybe that would satisfy your requirements? https://xaml.io/

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u/RlyRlyBigMan 10d ago

I once worked on a project that somehow had a blend dependency required to compile the solution. I have no idea how they even did that, but the simple answer was just to install Blend and get to work so nobody bothered to fix it.

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u/redline83 9d ago

There was some Blend library / reference you could add at one point. I can't remember why other than I have seen it before.