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MSDN magazine included an interview of Bjarne Stroustrup on the Evolution of Languages . Interesting to read his thoughts on DSLs: HD You commented on your Web site, "I think we should look for elegance in the applications built, rather than...
Good question on the slickedit community forum about the best way to configure it to edit XAML. In Visual Studio we chose to build a XAML Language Service to provide the editing support for XAML files, not reuse the XML Editor. The way we did that...
WPF Applications Karsten: Using Flotzam At A Conference . That plus a cool way to pick sessions , and you've got a pretty sweet conference. Office releases their v2 of Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map . Previously blogged about...
In the .Net Framework 3.0 and later, when objects are created by loading XAML, we check to see if they implement ISupportInitialize and call BeginInit and EndInit on the instance before we set properties and after we are done setting properties. Why would...
Robby updated KaXaml (a powerful XamlPad like app) to include the ability to host a Silverlight tab! Great stuff. My feedback for Robby: Silverlight tabs will eventually want to use the xaml/presentation namespace, not client/2007. Cider and...
Just got home from a dinner with MVPs who are in town for the MVP summit. Had a bunch of good conversations...met up with a bunch of people I've known and several I hadn't met before. Earlier today I did a few demos to a VB focused audience...
Happy tax day for those of you in the US. A few queued up links of miscellaneous interest: Designer/Devloper Workflow & the integrator role Laurent Bugnion (MVP) posts about the role of WPF Integrator and how his company does it - http://geekswithblogs...
I've been corresponding with a colleague who is asking about swapping in a button for another button. Then it turned into swapping a new Grid in for an existing grid. It started with a question about XamlWriter... InnerXaml I think I now realize...
I don't know who said it first on our team during construction of the first XAML based system...perhaps Mike Hillberg , but XAML's common use is to convert "strings to things"...our treatment of the strings in attribute values plays...
Interesting projects: Pixa - the drawing tool XamlFig - drawing in xaml
This ZDNet article mentions MyXaml, United XAML, etc... without providing much explanation. Early commenters see that MyXaml was released in 2004 and think that Microsoft copied XAML... My comments/clarifications: Microsoft announced our XAML and...
In Microsoft is to Release Open-Source Compatible XAML/WPF Specs , Jonathan Allen says: The XAML specifications are divided into two parts. First is the Xaml Object Mapping Specification. This defines the XAML language itself and focuses heavily on parsing...
DLR is the Dynamic Language Runtime...a library for the CLR (.Net or Silverlight) that enables "scripting" or "dynamic" languages (Ruby/Python/etc...). Check out DLR Pad on CodePlex to see a XamlPad app where you have an additional...
We just published two specifications today, which you can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3356AF19-A36E-4D6D-9D13-C37DB81EE607&displaylang=en [MS-XAML] Xaml Object Mapping Specification 2006 - this describes...
Happy to see the news from Microsoft's Sam Ramji @ EclipseCon08 : Among a range of other opportunities (which we’re still working on), we discovered that Steve Northover (the SWT team lead ) had gotten requests to make it easy for Java developers...
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