WPF: MSVS 2010 and Blend. Will Studio Designer replace Blend anytime soon?

Question

I started playing (just playing, not creating projects in real life) with WPF with MSVS 2008, where the built-in WPF constructor (as far as I remember) was extremely poor, so if I wanted to create a layout, I had to dive into the XAML tags . Therefore, I saw Expression Blend as a temporary application designed to overcome the limitations of MSVS in those days.

MSVS 2010 provides a much more powerful designer, so I completely forgot about Blend.

Is there a Microsoft vision on Blend and the MSVS designer as competing products, will the designer replace Blend for one day or any other vision of how these products will share the market in the near future?

Can I view the WPF MSVS versus Blend evolution constructor as an MSVS blur compared to ReSharper?

Answer 1

Blend is designed for more complex designs, such as storyboards and visual state managers, etc., which is currently not possible in a visual studio. Visual Studio provides the basic editing features needed for / crud business applications, but for high-level animation and enhanced graphics results, Visual Studio will never replace Blend.

For graphic designers, intellisense has a very low importance than the richness of a graphic editor. Blend is designed to design themes, color schemes. Visual Studio is designed for writing code and business applications.