Designer Support
Wizard has designer support for both Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend.
This enhanced functionality makes it much easier to quickly create and navigate through your wizards.
General Notes
All public properties on classes used in this product are categorized and have descriptions
assigned to them that help you out in the Properties windows for both Visual Studio and Blend.
Visual Studio 2008 Designer Interaction
Context Menus
Context menus for both the Wizard and WizardPage types are provided.
You can right click on either of those controls in the designer to display the related context menu.
A WizardPage context menu in the Visual Studio 2008 designer
Task Panes
Whenever you select a Wizard or WizardPage control in the designer, a task pane adorner appears in the upper right area of the control.
By clicking the adorner, a task pane popup appears, providing quick access to common configuration options.
The task pane for the Wizard control in the Visual Studio 2008 designer
Use the task pane to navigate to, add or remove pages.
The Wizard's task pane even enables you to reorder the pages.
Changing the Selected Page
In addition to the methods described above for selecting pages, the Wizard.SelectedPage property in the Properties window has a
special drop-down list that allows for visual selection of a page within the Wizard.
This allows you to jump directly to a specific page by clicking on it.
The Wizard.SelectedPage drop-down in the Visual Studio 2008 designer
Toolbox Icons
This product's installer automatically adds appropriate control icons into the Visual Studio 2008 toolbox
under a toolbox group for the product.
Expression Blend Designer Interaction
Changing the Selected Page
The Wizard.SelectedPage property in the Properties window has a special drop-down list that allows for visual selection
of a page within the Wizard. This allows you to jump directly to a specific page by clicking on it.
Blend editing a Wizard
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