How do I install XamlPad?

Question

This is going to sound silly, because everyone seems to take it for granted that XamlPad is just there, including the MSDN article about XamlPad.

But I\'ve inst

Answer 1

At the bottom of the MSDN page there's this comment:

The Start Menu shortcut is not installed by VS2008

The program binary is installed however in Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin

I've just checked on my machine and it's there.

For newer versions of Windows and Visual Studio the SDK version will be 7 or 8. The latest on my machine (Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2013) is v8.1A and it's in Program Files (x86) on 64 bit versions of the OS. So you will need to look in:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows

and see which version you have installed.

There's also a link on that MSDN page to the new version on the author's blog.