Appendix A. Tools and Resources

When creating custom software, you want to do it as efficiently and painlessly as possible. To that end, we have included a brief listing of tools and other resources that we believe will help you in your work.

Developer Tools

A host of tools are available for developers to more effectively leverage WPF. Following is a list of the tools we think all WPF developers should have at their disposal.

Visual Studio 2008

This is the premier developer tool released by Microsoft for building .NET applications. You can find the trial versions at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx.

Kaxaml

This tool was created by Robby Ingebretsen and is a fantastic, simple application for experimenting with XAML. Surprisingly, ...

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