It may be impossible or undesirable (perhaps for reasons of privacy or performance) for your app to display live data on the design surface in Microsoft Visual Studio or Blend for Visual Studio. In order to have your controls populated with data (so that you can work on your app's layout, templates, and other visual properties), there are various ways in which you can use design-time sample data. Sample data can also be really useful and time-saving if you're building a sketch (or prototype) app. You can use sample data in your sketch or prototype at run-time to illustrate your ideas without going as far as connecting to real, live data.

This is a complete* list of tools for software developers (ISVs) to create setup programs that use Microsoft's "Windows Installer" technology, also known as "MSI". Not included in this list are tools in the following categories, which are listed on separate pages on InstallSite: