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copied!<p>There are whole bunch of tools for WPF, and more and more are popping up as WPF grows in popularity. I have listed a few of the most useful ones below, but it really depends on what you are wanting to achieve.</p> <p>For instance, for me the Sketchflow plugin in Blend has made such a difference. Also, with VS2010 comming to release next year you will see the integration of VS2010 with WPF being a lot more fluid.</p> <p>WPF/XAML Specific Utilities</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e82db5e2-7106-419e-80b0-65cce89f06bb&displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Microsoft Blend with Sketchflow - Design & Prototype</a></li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969767.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Performance Profiling Tools for WPF</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2008/08/25/xamlpadx-4-0.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XAMLPadX - Xaml editor</a></li> <li><a href="http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XAML Power Tools - Plugin for Vs</a></li> <li><a href="http://blois.us/Snoop/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Snoop - Simplify Visual Debugging </a></li> <li><a href="http://shazzam-tool.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Shazzam - Edit Pixel Shading</a></li> <li><a href="http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/mole-for-visual-studio/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mole - Visualizer With Property Editing</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.kaxaml.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kaxaml - Lightweight XAML Editor</a> </li> <li><a href="http://www.granthinkson.com/2007/11/08/announcing-pistachio-wpf-resource-visualizer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pistachio - Resource Visualizer</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.erain.com/products/zam3d/DefaultPDC.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zam 3D - 3D XAML Tool</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/xamlexporter" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XAML Exporter for Blender</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.wpf-graphics.com/Paste2Xaml.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Paste2XAML - Convert Clipboard and metafiles into xaml</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/silverlight_sdk/archive/2007/05/13/Using-Silverlight-Pad-to-Test-XAML-Content.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Silverlight PAD - Test XAML Content</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.wpfwonderland.com/2007/01/02/wpf-tools-stylesnooper/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">StyleSnooper - See the styles for any WPF framework control</a></li> <li><a href="http://sellsbrothers.com/2091" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Show me the Template - Exploring Templates of Controls</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ADB47247-4E27-4490-A153-39D8334172D9&displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WPF XBAP Permission Repair Tool - Repairs Registry for WPF Xaml Browser Apps </a></li> <li><a href="http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/cracknet/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Crack.Net - Similar to Mole or Snoop</a></li> </ul> <p>I also agree with Andrew, if you are looking at doing a lot of WPF development it is worth giving the MVVM pattern a look at as I feel this is one pattern that does expose a lot of power behind WPF. </p> <p>Also, if you havent had a look at PRISM, give it some time.</p>

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