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XamlPad is (mostly) dead. Long live Kaxaml!

If you've used XamlPad from Microsoft ... you probably have a love-hate relationship with it. You love it because it's reasonably quick at doing a proof of concept or test of a WPF feature. You love it because it's simple. You hate it because it has a bunch of odd quirks with the text editor, the fact that it really has only a few useful features ...

Kaxaml is a better XamlPad in many respects. It's got a bunch of nice little features including:

  • Intellisense!
  • A color picker (that is better than the one in Expression!)
  • a scrubber:
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  • You can paste images into the editor!
  • It can have multiple files open at one time
  • Did I mention intellisense (and a color picker!)

 

The full announcement is here.

 

Pay attention to the default install -- it may change your default file handlers for Xaml files in a way that isn't to your liking:

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A definite recommended add to your WPF/Xaml editing toolbox.

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