OK, so you've just decided that WPF is the strategic technology of choice for your next-generation application, and you've taken the opportunity to flatten and reinstall your developer workstation. What should you put on it to create the perfect WPF development environment? There are so many good tools, utilities and samples out there, that I thought I'd put together a little checklist that will hopefully help folk out. I'd love to hear your suggestions for anything that I've missed: I'll try to keep this updated over time. Base Environment Windows Vista, of course! (although I'll concede that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will work too...) Visual Studio 2005 with Service Pack 1 and Windows Vista Support Files Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 Windows SDK Expression Blend and Expression Design Tools and Utilities XamlPad: WYSIWYG editing of XAML - often handy for cut and paste in conjunction with VS2005; XamlCruncher : an alternative to XamlPad that has source code available;
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