XAML.io

XAML.io is that awkward middle ground where coding meets dragging and dropping, but it’s not quite the polished no-code playground you might hope for. It’s meant for .NET developers who want a bit of a visual edge when working with XAML, the markup language for designing UIs in WPF and MAUI. If you’re used to wrestling with XML snippets in Visual Studio or VSCode, this tool tries to give you a more immediate, visual sense of what your UI will look like, but without fully ditching code. It’s not for beginners dreaming of clicking buttons to build apps from scratch; instead, it’s more like a modest helper for people who already know their way around .NET and want to speed up fiddling with UI layouts. The promise is that it can slot into existing workflows involving WPF or MAUI projects, giving you a drag-and-drop-ish interface to tweak your XAML files, but it often feels like a halfway house—you still need to understand the underlying code and framework concepts to make it really sing. So, it’s less a magic bullet and more a slightly friendlier way to wrestle with UI markup, especially if you’re working on Windows desktop apps or experimenting with the newer MAUI stuff and want a visual nudge without abandoning your code-centric habits.