Visual Studio VS Expression Blend

Today i just plan to work on Silver light so just thinking where to start it. The first thing is that to get which tool is batter to start it.

Right now i just found 2 tools to work on it

1) Visual Studio
2) Expression blend

Both the tools are good but each had their own limitation.

Let's start with fundamentals.

Blend and VS 2008 will both do some of the same things,and you can read/view much of what you create in one tool in the other, they do really have there different roles.

If you are a developer then you will probably work with easier to continue to create much of the in Visual Studio.You turn to Expression Blend when you want to create more complex visuals - gradients, complex sets of overlaid elements, animations - things like that.

One of the great advantages is that they both have the ability to allow you to edit and view the results of xaml file. When it comes to the code behind (VB.NET or C#) then, Blend will accept the code behind file (i.e. if you have an event coded in the .vb or .cs file and run the project in Blend, that event will be auctioned correctly).However you will need to edit externally with VS when you want to make changes to the code.



One more thing you can't debug code in Blend. But that is available in VS.

You can use either app to edit markup.

If you were limited to only one, VS would be the clear choice, but if you have access to/funds for both apps then you will find that you turn to each of them at different times for different specialty/fine tuning tasks. Just make sure once you update the xzml file just save it and refresh the page.


Reference: Bhaumik Vora

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