[MonoDevelop] Are there plans for a WPF/Silverlight/Moonlight graphical designer?

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

I've been experimenting with the design extensibility in Visual Studio.  I'm
> kind of curious about the plans for design extensibility in Monodevelop; I
> think it'd be interesting to try and produce Silverlight controls that have
> a good experience cross-platform.  I tried to experiment with it a little
> bit but found there's no visual designer and the properties tool window
> doesn't allow editing elements in Moonlight applications, so right now my
> answer is "It isn't supported."
>

We started on a designer as a student summer of code project a few years
ago.   It is called LunarEclipse.

It was built as a separate tool from MonoDevelop.   The idea was that we
would turn LunarEclipse into a standalone tool, eventually allowing
LunarEclipse to be a Silverlight designer that could be used *inside*
Silverlight itself.

By building the designer on Silverlight the idea was that we could get
developers on OSX interested as well, since OSX developers do not have
access to Blend either.

Some videos from youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98-qayPHl-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYeT-lowqSU
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