On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me πŸ¦™πŸπŸŽ„ A Llama in a #FluentUI #XAML Tree… πŸ¦™πŸπŸŽ„ Happy Holidays! We're back for a classic twist to preview the upcoming 2026 #XAMLStudio v2 w/ #12DaysOfXAML! Now with a new Fluent coat πŸ§₯! #WindowsDev πŸ¦™πŸπŸŽ„
On the second day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸ’πŸ•Š Two tabs duplicated πŸ’πŸ•Š It may not seem like much, but I use this all the time to iterate on different ideas. #XAMLStudio v2 will be filled with many improvements small and large #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
On the third day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸŸπŸ” Three Breadcrumbs πŸŸπŸ” or more of Navigation… Making it even easier to keep track of where you are within your #XAML document. Click to jump to bring that element's line in view. #12DaysOfXAML #XAMLStudio #WindowsDev
On the fourth day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸ“žπŸ¦ Four new Toolbar Buttons πŸ“žπŸ¦ The Quick Access Bar, introduced in v1.1, has a whole new set of tools coming in #XAMLStudio v2! Including quickly refreshing the preview, showing or hiding the alignment grid, toggling theming, and more to be revealed! #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
On the fifth day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸ₯‡πŸ’ Five Folder Files πŸ₯‡πŸ’ #XAMLStudio v2 can open a folder and let you use images, JSON, and resources from within it to augment your rapid prototyping experience! #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
On the sixth day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 🐀πŸ₯š Six Settings Sets 🐀πŸ₯š The #XAMLStudio v2 Settings page got a facelift! Now modernized with the #WindowsCommunityToolkit's SettingsCard and SettingsExpander. There are a few new settings too! πŸ˜‰ #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
On the seventh day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 🦒πŸ₯½ Seven Resources Loaded 🦒πŸ₯½ #XAMLStudio v2 can show you the contents of a #XAML #ResourceDictionary! That's right! Iterate easily on all your knobs πŸŽ›οΈ, bells πŸ””, whistles πŸš‚, whatever! 😲 #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
On the eighth day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸ„πŸ₯› Eight Points Highlighted πŸ„πŸ₯› #XAMLStudio v2 is where the #WindowsCommunityToolkit #XAML Adorners came from! First used to highlight the bounds of UIElements just like in Visual Studio, these are useful for mastering perfect layouts. #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
On the ninth day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸ’ƒπŸ©° Nine #XAML Layers Deep πŸ’ƒπŸ©° Visual Trees are just as important as Christmas trees! #XAMLStudio v2 lets you easily navigate up and down the visual tree in a compact display! Find out why you need to over the rest of the #12DaysOfXAML πŸ˜‰ #WindowsDev
On the tenth day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸ‘‘πŸ¦˜ Ten VisualStates Visualized πŸ‘‘πŸ¦˜ #WindowsDev ever want to visualize your visual states? #XAMLStudio v2 will let you see and manipulate the active visual states of a #XAML control! 🀯 #12DaysOfXAML
On the eleventh day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me 🎺🎢 Eleven Properties Presented 🎺🎢 The new Properties panel in #XAMLStudio v2 lets you see the visual tree, visual states, and, or course, properties of a selected element. See what's been modified or make changes directly to experiment! #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
On the twelfth day of Christmas @XAMLLlama sent to me πŸ₯πŸ₯ Twelve Designers Designing πŸ₯πŸ₯ #XAMLStudio v2 adds more designer-like features. Such as modifying in-place w/ control-specific Adorners. e.g. a TextBlock's Text shown here; WIP, stay tuned for more. #12DaysOfXAML #WindowsDev
πŸ¦™πŸ“’ It's been an amazing celebration of #XAMLStudio v2 these last couple of weeks. 🎊 And so #WindowsDev to culminate it all, I'd like to announce that the project is now open-sourced! A seed project in the @dotnetfdn πŸŽ‰ Read all about this journey here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-windows/xaml-studio-is-now-open-sourced/
XAML Studio is now Open Sourced - #ifdef Windows

XAML Studio is now open sourced! It's a WinUI developer tool for rapid prototyping with XAML before integrating in a Visual Studio project.

#ifdef Windows