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Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship IDE for software developers of all kinds, but it hasn't received a major upgrade in years.

These controls had been replaced with more powerful controls in 2005 with the release of .NET Framework 2.0 and have not been available by default in the Visual Studio Designer Toolbox for years.

“Other .NET FX 3.0-specific development tools, such as Visual Studio Designer (code-named ‘Cider’), which will complement WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), are still in testing.