MoXAML Power Toys

MoXAML Power Toys is a handy open source Visual Studio add-in by Pete O'Hanlon, providing a number of XAML and code helper functions for both Silverlight and WPF developers. You can download it from http://peteohanlon.wordpress.com/moxaml-power-toys/.

Some of the most useful features include the following:

  • It includes a commenting helper. If you try to comment out XAML in the normal fashion, as described earlier in this chapter, and that XAML already contains comments, you will end up with invalid XAML. This function handles this scenario by first modifying the existing comment markers within the selected XAML, resulting in valid XAML instead.
  • It contains a scrubber feature that cleans and formats the XAML in a file according ...

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