Microsoft Expression Blend 2 SP1 Source Code - Loads Into Blend

• Posted by christhi on November 19, 2008
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Many of those who have programmed WPF or SilverLight applications are well aware that Microsoft Expression Blend was written in WPF so that may be old news.   However one thing I thought was cool and worth sharing was the fact the Blend 2 SP1 product itself was used to design the Blend itself.   Now that also may have been assumed but it is great realization that Blend is plainly capable of handling large projects.  Fun Fact: Blend SP1 alone has 300,000 lines of C# and 80,000 lines of XAML all editable in Blend 2 SP1.  I've been talking about that for some time now but what I haven't seen was a demo on the editing of the actual Blend 2 source code until now.   If you were at PDC 2008 you may have caught this session but for those unfortunate souls who couldn't justify the journay to their managers you can now see if online at:

http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC47/

Notice how fast the project loads.. not bad.