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Designing In Blend

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To say that Blend for Visual Studio 2012 is an interactive design tool for XAML misses the power of the product.It's like comparing Notepad to Visual Studio. In theory, you could get everything done inNotepad, but in reality you would get bogged down almost immediately. Or, as someone once said, "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is" (multiple attributions).

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Software, F. (2013). Designing In Blend. In: Pro Windows Phone App Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4783-8_13

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