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No, Blend only works one way. What IB allows you to do is to subclass UIView, design your own controls in code and preview the results of changing instance var

• pjmlp 8y ago
  You can do that by implementing designer aware controls since .NET 1.0, so I don't see the difference, other than having a bit extra code maybe.
  • jchb 8y ago
    I suppose you are referring to this WPF functionality https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/controls/creating-a-control-that-has-a-customizable-appearance https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/contro..., and similarly in UWP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls-and-patterns/control-templates#specify-the-visual-behavior-of-a-control https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls...? While it looks powerful, I have to say that the Xcode interface builder and code annotation approach has a lot less friction.
    • pjmlp 8y ago
      Yes, exactly that, but you don't need to go the full way. It depends on what kind of rendering one wants to present to the user/developer, even with DesignerAttribute one can provide a custom rendering for the control. Here with a forms example, but similar way can be done for the XAML variants. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171824.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171824.aspx