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What I Use for Silverlight Development

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I was recently re-paving my machine and thought that it might be fun to show off what I use to prepare a machine for Silverlight development...so here goes:

 Anything I missed that you can't live without?

UPDATE: Great feedback found some more I failed to list:

  • Reflector: View approximations of the real code and metadata of .NET assemblies (works with Silverlight assemblies too).
  • Silverlight Spy: A great way to look at how Silverlight Applications work and works with reflector to see the code too.
  • Paint.NET: An open source image editor that does most of what I need for simple image editing, sizing and touch-ups for free!
  • Silverlight Extensions: Another control library with some cool features.
  • Blacklight Silverlight Controls: A great free suite of controls unlike I've seen anywhere else.
 
 

Comments

Gravatar paint.net?
Kristofer (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar Hello,

http://www.slextensions.net/ definitely worth a look at ^^
Laurent (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar Can't live without Resharper for any Visual Studio development!
Bob Thomson (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar Hi,

Good list, add this one: http://silverlightspy.com/silverlightspy/introduction/

Cheers.
vtortola (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar Hey, what happened with Silverlight Spy?
Koen Zwikstra (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar Ah. Rockscroll. I attended your presentation in Minneapolis last month and I almost thought you were using VS 2010.

If you are really looking for a good time with World of Goo, then you should pick up a HP tx2 multi-touch tablet and throw Windows 7 on it. WoG wasn't designed for M-T but it is *very* intuitive and easy to play on the screen. Unfortunately it is the only game that I've found that really works well with M-T.
Allen Sanborn (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar Thanks for the Great List, Shawn!

New Silverlight Developers will love this blog post.
Alex (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar Psd2Xaml (try to convert psd and swf to xaml)
http://flowlabs.net/psd2xaml.aspx
Laurent (Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009)
Gravatar We like uses these control sets too

http://www.vectorlight.net/
Mohammed Mudassir Azeemi (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar Here's the url for the Adobe Illustrator XAML Export plugin:

http://www.mikeswanson.com/xamlexport/
Emmanuel Morales (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar The PSD2XAML isn't working for me. I'll try to submit a bug.
Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar Here's the url for the Adobe Illustrator XAML Export plugin:

http://www.mikeswanson.com/xamlexport/
Emmanuel Morales (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar Good list Shawn, thanks for complining it.

On a personal note, I'll join the commenter who mentioned Resharper. I can't imagine my life adding xmlns manually anymore. R# FTW.

-- Justin
Justin Angel (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar I don't use Resharper or CodeRush as they seem to slow down Visual Studio and are a pain to configure the way I like. I am old-school...before Intellisense...
Shawn Wildermuth (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar Thanks,it's really useful.
kevin fan (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerCommands
XAML Power Toys
http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/
MoXAML Power Toys
http://peteohanlon.wordpress.com/moxaml-power-toys/

I also really like the Divelements SandDock and SandRibbon controls although they aren't free.
Colin Blair (Posted Friday, March 13, 2009)
Gravatar World of Goo is ok... but try www.fantasticcontraption.com, too. I played from 10pm one night until 12pm the next day. Yep, all night until all 20+ levels were done.
john west (Posted Monday, March 16, 2009)
Gravatar It's really nice...

very useful for all silverlight developer

Thanks
Leosys (Posted Monday, May 18, 2009)
Gravatar http://www.visifire.com/
is nice too
karel (Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009)
Gravatar The usable Tool for the Silverlight Development are more Powerful tools and I interested in your post so thank you for share it.
Silverlight Developers Blog (Posted Thursday, November 24, 2011)

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