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Sparky Dasrath writes a short post discussing XAML centric improvements in VS2010 XAML Editor and Property Grid for WPF and Silverlight developers.
I was working on a draft of a post about Events and XAML, and I tripped over this blast from the past from Kevin Dente from 2003 “ Longhorn and Avalon ” I predict that Avalon will be a smashing success with developers. Why? Because XAML is so darn fun...
Internal thread that may be of use to more people: Question From: Microsoft Developer Is there a way to configure XAML writer (XamlWriter.Save() or XamlServices.Save()) to not to serialize null properties. Right now I get "{x:Null}" written...
Krishna Bhargav shows how to declare String.Empty() in XAML in “ Declaring Empty String in XAML ”. XAML 2009 will continue with this same behavior.
XAML 2006 Background XAML design in .NET 3 was mostly driven by WPF scenarios. In that timeframe, WPF only had one significant generic type that required its use in XAML: PageFunction<T>. As such, we supported x:TypeArguments on the root element...
[This post was originally posted on November 29, 2004 and may still be available via this link . I’m reposting to ensure that it remains available. In 2008, I wrote an updated “ 8 Benefits of XAML for UI and Beyond ”] I like the description...
Josh Twist has an interesting post arguing that XAML writability is very important , and that many people want to edit XAML directly. While we have focused on ease of human authoring of XAML as a goal, it has always been balanced with other goals, like...
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...
Didn’t realize that XAML has reached verb status. Cool! From FacingBlend.com’s “ Alternative uses for XAML ” We’ll have to work on the dictionary definition…
Some URI Properties Often, in WPF/Silverlight there are objects with a Source property – Frame, Image, ResourceDictionary, and NavigationWindow are some of them – which enable you to refer to an image or another XAML file to load. IUriContext XAML/WPF...
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...
Just ran into Brad Abram’s post on “ Framework Design Guidelines- Serialization Technology ”. Interesting discussion. Should we have a subsection for XAML in that section in the future? What would you want it to say?
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...
Events Mix09 WPF Workshop: Jaime/Robby/John/… “ Hiking Mt. Avalon at Mix09 ”. Sounds great. WPF Jaime Rodriguez: Styling Microsoft’s WPF datagrid Several teams continue to do some very cool things with MultiTouch ( Resources for Multi-Touch in Windows...
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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