Probably a dumb question but I’m looking for tools and resources that help design UIs with XAML. Any suggestions?
Use the tools in Blend and Visual Studio to make real tools. That’s the best way to learn. I recommend getting a good book for the platform you’re targeting too, because XAML’s a little different on each.
Not a dumb question. Definitely download and install Visual Studio Community which will have template projects to start with. XAML is a funky mix of XML and HTML style syntax. The resources I used when I was writing it was during the Windows Phone days, but here is one (link here) for getting started with WPF and XAML.
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