Understanding XAMLPad and XAMLPadX

XamlPad (xamlpad.exe) is a basic visual editor for Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).

Location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\XamlPad.exe (you need to install Windows SDK obviously)

Features:

• Real-time editing and display of XAML content.
• Auto parse, syntax validation and redisplay of content.
• Basic text editing commands, including copy, paste, undo and find.
• XAML errors are reported in the status bar.
• XAML contents is shown in a visual tree
• Use XamlPad.exe to load your XAML file

XamlPadX:

http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2008/08/25/xamlpadx-4-0.aspx

My thoughts:

This is a very basic tool and doesn't have intellisense, so if you have access to Visual Studio, don't bother using this tool!