Rob Relyea - XAMLified

Josh Twist would like to see .config move over to be XAML based.

• XAML for Config (theJoyOfCode.com) - "Type checking, extensibility... oh the joy."

Pointer to previous post (added 2008/04/16)

• Actually, in an old blog post, I had pointed toward Daniel Cazzulino: Why XAML makes System.Configuration and Enterprise Library Configuration obsolete

Updated list of Posts in XAML as Config space (added 2010/01/04) 

Guidance on how to use XAML for Config:

• CodeProject.com: Using XAML for Custom Application Configuration (by Edward Moemeka)
• CodeProject.com: Using XAML in app.config and web.config (by Edward Moemeka) 

 Examples of using XAML for Config:

• Abusing XAML for Application Configuration - Good writeup of the problems that led to using XAML for Config for a library that configures AppDomain sandboxing (by Matt Valerio)

<SandboxConfiguration

    xmlns="http://thevalerios.net/matt/XamlConfig"

    FriendlyName="SandboxGroup1">

    <SandboxConfiguration.RootDirectory>

        C:\Sandbox\Test1\

    </SandboxConfiguration.RootDirectory>

    <SandboxConfiguration.RetrySection>

        <RetrySection RetryCount="10" DelayInterval="5"/>

    </SandboxConfiguration.RetrySection>

    <SandboxConfiguration.SandboxItems>

        <SandboxItem CleanBeforeUse="True" Path="C:\Temp\"/>

        <SandboxItem CleanBeforeUse="False" Path="C:\Temp2\"/>

        <SandboxItem CleanBeforeUse="True" Path="C:\Temp3\"/>

    </SandboxConfiguration.SandboxItems>

</SandboxConfiguration>

• ValidationAspects Codeplex Project uses XAML for its Config

Discussion of using XAML for Config:

• Using XAML for Application Config - comments about Edward's CodeProject articles