> but you can't just go in and add a single line to change the color of an invalid toolbox border--the alternative to blend is to (afaik) copy the entire style resource that the element uses from MSDN, dig into it to find the appropriate 10 lines of useless markup that surround one word property.
This is spot on. The point of a declarative markup language is to make hand editing easy, but XAML fails hard on the simplest of tweaks.
This is spot on. The point of a declarative markup language is to make hand editing easy, but XAML fails hard on the simplest of tweaks.