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Inversion of Control (IOC) with XAML
I met Simon Ferquel this week at the 2010 MVP Summit. I gave a talk about XAML on Wednesday, and later that day blogged one of my samples from the talk: “ XamlSchemaContext/XamlType/XamlMember – a command line example ”. He commented on that post with...

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XamlSchemaContext/XamlType/XamlMember – a command line example
Today at MVP Summit 2010, one of the things I discussed with the MVPs was the concept of XamlSchema. To leverage my already done work, and to share with all of you, my XAML friends, I’m following up my talk with a post that goes into that area. All XAML...

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Exploring new techniques for DLR Script in XAML
Thursday’s… PDC09’s XAML Futures talk will show off several demos…one of them will be a demo of .NET 4’s System.Xaml.dll and the DLR. Code intertwined with markup, generally isn’t best practice, but I’ve talked with several customers who have wanted to...

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Several WPF Localization questions
Email from customer (I’ll keep them anonymous unless they want to chime in): … I have several questions and I would really appreciate it if you have time to answer some of them. 1) In your post " http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive...

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PDC2009: XAML Futures Talk
Very happy to see our upcoming XAML Futures talk posted to MicrosoftPDC.com.  Mike and I are looking forward to meeting you there!  We are working hard to make it a great session. XAML Futures in Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight...

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XAML news (.NET4 and VS2010 Beta2)
Very happy to see .NET 4 and VS2010 hitting the beta2 milestone . It is available today (October 19th) for MSDN subscribers, and will be available for everybody starting October 21st. The XAML team has been very busy since Beta1 , with a number of significant...

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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...

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XAML node loop example: finding all named object instances
[Beta 1 of .NET 4 has released, and we’ve been doing a series of blog posts describing new XAML functionality .] One of the things that most excites me about System.Xaml.dll is the flexibility that our programming model gives to people who need something...

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Cider/Blend/Other tools – Please don’t hardcode knowledge of “WindowsBase.dll” for XAML component model attributes, etc…
In the Beta2 of .NET 4, we’re working on type forwarding several types from WindowsBase.dll to System.Xaml.dll. WindowsBase will have a dependency on System.Xaml.  System.Xaml will no longer depend on WindowsBase. On Friday we discovered some issues...

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Tool to find unused Resources in WPF/Silverlight XAML files
NickBaker77 is on the WPF Forum looking for a tool to find unused Resources in XAML files.  I’m not sure if one exists…however, for those of you looking to try out System.Xaml.dll APIs, I replied with an outline on how I would write such a tool....

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Channel9: XAML in .NET 4
Channel9! Now that XAML2009 and System.XAML are in your hands , Mike Shim and I visited Adam Kinney to briefly discuss XAML in .NET 4 on Channel 9 . We discuss some language features, show of the latest version of XamlT.Pad , and more. Update: The last...

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XAML2009 and System.Xaml.dll Preview (in .NET FX 4 Beta1)
On May 20th, 2009, Beta 1 of .NET FX 4 and Visual Studio 2010 will be available for download 1 . We’re very excited that XAML2009 language features & System.Xaml.dll are now finally available for you to try. We first talked about XAML2009 & System...

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XAML in .NET 4 Update
Random news on the .NET4/XAML/BAML front…builds more info on top of last month’s XAML State of the Union Localization Doing WPF Localization review internally today… Separately talking with Silverlight, Blend, Cider…on how WPF/Silverlight should both...

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XAML State of the Union – Feb 2009
Dear XAML Nation: My days, like many of you, are filled with work with XAML.  This space gets more exciting every year!  I wanted to do a brain dump of our current work items, plans, etc…  We first unveiled most of this information at our...

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Avoid having default values in XAML to do less during Load.
I worked with a part of the VS2010 team recently to improve XamlReader.Load performance for an important scenario.  It was taking 120ms to load a XAML file and create the objects that it specified.  It seemed like the XAML was a bit verbose...

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