Blend for Visual Studio is a user interface design tool developed and sold by Microsoft for creating graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications. It is an interactive, WYSIWYG front-end for designing XAML-based interfaces for Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, and UWP applications. Blend for Visual Studio provides the same basic XAML design experience as Visual Studio and adds visual designers for advanced tasks such as animations and behaviors. It is a component of Visual Studio and can be installed by choosing either the Universal Windows Platform development or .NET desktop development workload in the Visual Studio Installer. The Tools panel in Blend for Visual Studio can be used to create and modify objects in your application. The panel appears on the left-hand side of the XAML designer when you have a .xaml file open. You can use the panel to draw objects by selecting a tool and drawing on the artboard with your mouse. Blend for Visual Studio is mostly for design purposes, and it is similar to Visual Studio.