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MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight

Just stepped a developer on my team through the basics of a .csproj file, the targets it imports (Microsoft.CSharp.targets), and how targets and tasks work in msbuild.

He is debugging why a Blend 3 project has a strange warning when upgrading a SketchFlow WPF project to VS 2010.

My team works on both the Silverlight and WPF MarkupCompilers (we generate .baml and .g.cs files for WPF and .g.cs files for Silverlight).  Lots of things we want to do for both of those MarkupCompilers when we get a chance.  The WPF one is built on top of the WPF v3 Parser.  The Silverlight one is build on an earlier version of System.Xaml.dll’s code base.  We want to move both on top of System.Xaml.dll and provide a number of benefits to you all.

We’re also exploring having more pluggability in the build pipeline…the Blend team would like to transform some XAML files during build, but before markup compilation.

Fun stuff!

Published Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:46 AM by Rob_Relyea
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# Dew Drop – August 26, 2009 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew@ Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:59 AM

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by Dew Drop – August 26, 2009 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

# re: MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight@ Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:23 AM

Hi Rob,

what about the Markup-Parsers? There are some differences between Silverlight and WPF XAML, e.g. <Button>Hello</Button> works in WPF, in Silverlight it doesn't. Would you upgrade those things too?

by Thomas Claudius Huber

# re: MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight@ Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:47 PM

Thomas-

Yes, we know we need to improve things about the Silverligh parser.  We want to make them have identical behavior!  We're working on that.

I'd love to hear what improvements in the Silverlight XAML parser are most critical to the Silverlight community.

Thanks, Rob

by Rob_Relyea

# Silverlight XAML Developer Experience Issues?@ Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:16 PM

Got a comment from Thomas Claudius Huber the other day in the middle of my post about “ MsBuild pipeline

by Rob Relyea - XAMLified

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