Appendix: Helpful Tools
Because WPF introduces so many new concepts and new pieces of infrastructure, it’s not practical to develop, design, build, debug, analyze, test, and deploy professional applications without a new wave of tools to help you. These tools fall into three major categories—professional development tools, free utilities, and professional design tools.
Professional Development Tools
Starting with version 2005, Visual Studio is the best development tool for WPF. And the support will undoubtedly get better with each new version. At the time of writing, two relevant versions are available:
- Visual Studio 2005 is a good environment for building WPF applications after you’ve downloaded from http://msdn.com and installed the free Windows ...
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