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Mike Shim blogged how you should Use XamlReader.Load for WPF XAML (not XamlServices.Load) . I just saw a twitter comment asking how to XamlXmlReaderSettings with XamlReader . I believe we ended up enabling in .NET 4, the ability to use System.Xaml.dll...
I'm not the expert on VS LightSwitch, but I know several people who are: Jay , Beth , and more... Tim Anderson writes " Ten things you need to know about Microsoft's Visual Studio LightSwitch ". Notice he mentions LightSwitch's use...
I tweeted a pointer to David Poll’s “ To XAML with Love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight) ” recently. Wanted to make sure I did a short blog post about it, as it is worthy of more than just a quick tweet! I’m really happy with the...
We got a customer question about a change in behavior between WPF 4’s Release Candidate and WPF 4’s final version (RTM). We discovered late in WPF4 a change in behavior since WPF 3.x that affected StaticResource lookup. In v3.x, we would always determine...
Happy to see more great detail from the VS team about how they have used WPF and XAML in the building of VS2010. Matthew writes in great detail about the windowing system with: “ WPF in VS 2010 – Part 5: Window Management ”. As part of that, he details...
At PDC09, we discussed that our direction was to invest in improving the Silverlight XAML parser. We didn’t announce a timeframe, but I’m happy to see that this work successfully made it in time for Silverlight 4! David Poll, the Program Manager...
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...
I always enjoy understanding Don’s perspectives. This InfoQ interview is interesting as always. Touches on SOAP, XML, XML Schema, M, etc… InfoQ: Don Box Discusses SOAP, XML, REST and M Is XML as bad as Don is saying to you? We can explore other ways to...
XAML has a major problem in v3 that we’ve addressed with a hotfix last year and .NET 4 includes the fix as well. From KB 968227 article: Consider the following scenario: You have a computer that uses the English (United States) regional settings. In the...
There was a “XAML Serialization” thread on Channel 9 – Coffeehouse today that had an interesting use of XAML. He was using XAML as a way to dump the state of his object graph for verification, debugging, potential transformations/exports, etc… As such...
XamlPadSample step 1 sample code is now available for download from http://robrelyea.com/demos/XamlPadSample/XamlPadSample-2010-01-20.zip . It requires .NET 4 (although I’m not using Beta2, if you are still on Beta2, I think it will work. Please post...
I’ve been exploring XamlPad and XamlDesigner features built on top of .NET 4. I plan to ship a XamlPad+ sample soon. After that, I’d like to provide guidance and/or small samples for all of the other steps to enable the Xaml Tools out there to continue...
I’m working on a XamlPad application sample using WPF4. As part of that, I’m ending up exploring ideas around persistable view models, which may end up having a lot to do with Xaml for Config . Here is the current persisted view model for my application...
I was never a Win32 developer, so I don’t know a ton about the .rc format…but this was an interesting comment that I found on Pete Brown’s “ WPF and Silverlight Convergence” post from Philip the Duck: @Steven: "I personally feel that Microsoft has...
I’m curious if anybody has a C or C++ based XAML parser yet? (recall that we’ve published [ MS-XAML ] “Microsoft Specification – XAML Object Mapping Rules”) Somebody is wondering about parsing XAML on a server that isn’t running .NET…
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