When working with canvasses in the Cider Designer, I can't select it to move it around, and I can't seem to drop anything on it, I have to add with XAML, and if add the items in that way, the items themselves are not moveable or sizeable.
Is there a bug fix for this?
Thank you,
Jaco
I would recommend using Expression Interactive Designer for designing your XAML layout visually. It is far ahead of what the Cider designer can do.
An analogy that I use is that of webforms development (in 1.1, 2.0 has a much better webforms designer). You could hand code the html, or you could use dreamweaver for your design and VS for your code behinds. Expression even properly displays custom controls, and it works with the same project file that Visual studio uses.
(Hopefully, they'll release an expression express edition to go with the VS Express editions too).
Thank you for the advise, but I would like to be able to use Cider desgner for quickly dragging and dropping controls to make simple UI so that I can test my code. The problem with expression is a) I have to work in two seperate applications and b) it generates WAY to much unnecessary extra xaml.
The grid control seem to work perfectly as you can drag and drop controls and delete them from the designer. The canvas is so bugged that you can't even drop a control on it, not move it or even resize it.
Can someone please tell me why?
There is currently no support for interacting with container controls other than the Grid. Much of the work we have done in previous iterations focused on improving the overall quality of the features (such as working with the Grid) in the CTPs. We have decided to remove some functionality that was present in previous CTPs and will add them back in future CTPs when the features meet a suitable level of quality. For the time being, a workaround would be to switch to XAML view to add and manipulate controls within those containers.
Some other features that are not present in the May CTP are listed in the "Features missing from the May CTP" section on the Cider wiki: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Cider.MayCTPReleaseNotes.
It would be great to understand why you chose Canvas rather than Grid for your layout
thanks
mark
