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.
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You are correct, both XamlpadX and Kaxaml do not support events (where would be the handler?) or class references (there is no code-behind).
You may be missing the purpose of these editors - they are very useful when dealing with 'pure' xaml - figuring out styles, templates and the like, outside of a large project / solution. Once complete to your satisfaction you incorporate your XAML back into the project.