WPF/Silverlight Design Data without XAML
February 19, 2014
Here’s a class for our sample data. That’s where the data should go into.
public class MainViewModelDesignData : MainViewModel { public MainViewModelDesignData() { // TODO: instantiate your sample data } } In App.xml define your namespace:
xmlns:models="clr-namespace:YourApp.ViewModels" and then:
<Application.Resources> <models:MainViewModel x:Key="DesignDataContext" /> </Application.Resources> The last step - instantiate sample data as DesignContext. You can do it in your Window, Page or whatever. I did it in MainPage.xaml in my Windows Phone 7 application:
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