Not sure what to feel about the other products as I never used them (did anyone?) but I'm glad Blend's editor made its way into VS2012. Working with the built i

Not sure what to feel about the other products as I never used them (did anyone?) but I'm glad Blend's editor made its way into VS2012. Working with the built in XAML WYSIWIG editor in past versions of VS was always terrible. People always seemed to be put off by the $300 price tag for the package but I felt it was worth every penny for the keyframe animation mode and just to avoid crashing multiple times per day when accidentally opening a complex XAML file in split mode. I haven't been on the MS side of things in a few months now but I'll have to go play with VS2012. Edit: Also wanted to add, for those who actually used Design to do Vector graphics -> XAML conversions, there's an Illustrator plugin available to do that: http://www.mikeswanson.com/xamlexport/ http://www.mikeswanson.com/xamlexport/