This article is a short introduction and overview of XamlPad and it's features. With XamlPad you can easily test your XAML code snippets at real time. Unlike the XAML designer in Visual Studio 2008, it's lightweight, very fast and thereby a great way to view the results of your GUI development. [...]

A huge change in WPF and the way a developer creates a GUI for an application is XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language). It's an declarative XML-based language used to describe an GUI in WPF or a workflow in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). [...]