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We are starting a WPF project that will use Prism 4.
We have a designer who will design the screens using Blend / Sketchflow.
We had originally thought of using the xaml that Blend generated directly. However, we have been advised that this is not a good idea due to the readibility of the xaml created.
Has anyone any experience with using the xaml directly from Blend? Is this something that you would recommend or not?
It completely depends. Blend, especially newer versions, does a fairly good job of creating reasonable xaml.
That being said, it’s still a designer – most designers don’t write the same code you would when writing by hand. It’s often still useful to “clean up” the designed code as you’re working, so understanding what Blend is doing can be helpful.
That being said, there is no problem with using Blend’s xaml directly, especially if you don’t need/want to hand edit it to add additional functionality, or work with it outside of Blend at all.