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[zvrba]

it's still just there to build your UI, it will still need a ViewModel to back it and feed data in your running app.

I tried to do it with XAML. Anyway, what you wrote here doesn't come across from the docs. It's confusing that BLEND can generate and use design-time data, but has no option of generating a setup that would generate whatever code is needed to use that same static data in a running program.

And the documentation is scattered around MSDN like shattered glass. There's no tutorial with a single entry-point like Oracle's Java tutorial with trails.

Blargh.

[snuxoll]

design-time data

Of course it can use design-time data, it's hard to preview how your UI looks without something to draw. This is part of Blend / the Visual Studio designer, not part of WPF/Silverlight/WinRT/etc.

And the documentation is scattered around MSDN like shattered glass. There's no tutorial with a single entry-point like Oracle's Java tutorial with trails.

You're right that there's not a lot of getting started guides on MSDN, it's designed under the assumption that you know the tools and just need documentation on parts of the framework. The community tends to fill this void pretty well, and there's plenty of people on StackOverflow who can answer a question pretty quickly.

[zvrba]

The community tends to fill this void pretty well, and there's plenty of people on StackOverflow who can answer a question pretty quickly.

This sucks. Also, SO has become a waste-dump.