RTVS

I originally wrote this code back in 2011 with the intent to do just that (after some production use to prove the concept - which did happen; we've been shipping products that use this code since 2013)... but never found enough interest to actually motivate me to go and make it happen. Looking at the upvotes on this comment, I might reconsider :) Of course, if anyone wants to take this code and go for it, you're quite welcome. Note that it has been also licensed more permissively under MIT as part of RTVS - probably a better starting point for that: https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS/tree/master/src/Common/Wpf... https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS/blob/master/src/Common/Bui...

I'm not super familiar with x:Bind, but based on what you're describing, it sounds like something that could be done in WPF (or, presumably, something that copies its design), as a markup extension. Fpr example (note wpf:Lambda): https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS/blob/828b4e3919cbed507a4d0... Obviously this is still more verbose, because it is a converter on a binding (although it could be shortened further by providing a custom Binding-derived class, I think).

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Aha, my bad. Yes, for certain scenarios it makes sense to have a drag/drop paradigm, for some a REPL++ like Jupyter, and sometimes an Editor. That's exactly why we decided to integrate Jupyter w Azure ML. This is going the other way around and makes total sense. The ideal as you've noted is figuring out how to integrate the three canvases intelligently so that you don't have to "alt-tab" between disjoint worlds constantly. Meanwhile I've added it to the feature list: https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS/issues/1237

" RTVS will also be free & open source of course." Ten years ago I would have never thought I'd say this, but I am really liking Microsoft these days. Great work! (here's the repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS)