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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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Don Box – feelings for XML
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...

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TypeConverters with en-US machines with customized cultures
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...

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XAML: writing down all values of an object?
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...

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XamlPadSample – Step 1
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...

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Exploring: XamlPad to XamlDesigner
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...

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Persistable View Models & XAML for Config
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...

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XAML for UI & .rc files
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...

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Anybody build a XAML parser in C or C++ yet?
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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WPF at PDC09
Here are the WPF focused sessions at PDC09 . If you are attending, we hope to see you there. If not, videos will be posted of the sessions later this week…click on the links. The team also has a booth in the Big Room (in the Web Platform area near Silverlight...

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Double event firing in VB/XAML. How common?
Jonathan Aneja blogged for the VB Team about cases where a developer creates an event handler in XAML and uses the Handles clause on a method .  You end up with the same event firing twice. A XamlFxCop rule could be written to help detect this case...

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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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XAML for WinMo6.5?
Found a post from Nigel Spencer about a MobileUI framework that can target Windows Mobile 6.5 that has XAML markup support for the WindowsForms framework. As a new owner of an HTC Imagio , perhaps I’ll give this a try. I think XAML for the phone has some...

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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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Obfuscation of WPF applications (status update)
ScottGu’s recent WPF4 Beta2 post had a comment asking about obfuscation: # re: WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:58 AM by john Yeah, but what about the ability to obfuscate your WPF app? In WPF4 we haven’t improved that yet...

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