Announcing the Cider May CTP! (for WinFX Beta2 Release)
The May Community Technology Preview of the Cider Visual Designer for Windows Presentation Foundation is now available! As usual Cider is being released as part of the Visual Studio 'Orcas' CTP, an early preview of technology for the next release of Visual Studio.
Similarly to the previous CTP, this release of Cider supports basic "form" creation/layout and "XAML Preview". Since the February CTP, our primary focus has been on improving the overall quality of the existing features in Cider. So you should expect quality improvements across the board in this CTP. In addition to quality improvements, we were able to implement some new functionality that many of you have been requesting. The major updates you should expect to see in this CTP are:
·Delete Key support! You can now delete items from your design surface.
·Support for basic Cut, Copy, and Paste.
·Much improved Grid Layout Experience. This includes better layout support and better feedback on control creation and manipulation within the Grid.
·Much improved XAML Parsing and Rendering support. We’ve significantly increased the amount of XAML we currently support. (Note: There are still some limitationsyou should expect to see with our XAML Load support. Check out the release notes on theCider Wiki for details.)
·Support for 64bit Operating Systems.
We have release notes and installation information published on theCider Wiki.
We’ve worked hard to ensure that the capabilities in this CTP will provide you with a good experience for trying out WPF application development in Visual Studio. So we’re really interested in your feedback. Don’t hesitate to ask questions or post comments.
The Cider Team
