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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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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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Silverlight XAML Developer Experience Issues?
Got a comment from Thomas Claudius Huber the other day in the middle of my post about “ MsBuild pipeline for WPF & Silverlight ”: Hi Rob, what about the Markup-Parsers? There are some differences between Silverlight and WPF XAML, e.g. <Button>Hello<...

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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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Windows Tip: set PerceivedType for .xaml to “text” to get nice preview in explorer
Windows 7 has a preview handler in the Explorer that provides a nice preview for many file types. I noticed the other day that .cs files show up in the preview window.  Also, .xaml files didn’t. I just dug through the registry to figure out how to...

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x:Uids…should we have UpdateUid create fewer of them.
Had a thread with some VS folks… now working on a little prototype for a new CheckUid/UpdateUid to be a bit smarter. Last bit to get working is the actual updating… From: VS Guy Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 5:44 PM Subject: RE: Uid clashes I think the...

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MEF and XAML
Glenn writes about the current ideas on how MEF and XAML can work together today . Our teams explored several options for .NET 4 as well, where we get a few more options. So far (for .NET 4) we landed that the default XamlServices.Load() for general XAML...

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XAML centric improvments in VS2010 - markup extensions intellisense and more
Sparky Dasrath writes a short post discussing XAML centric improvements in VS2010 XAML Editor and Property Grid for WPF and Silverlight developers.

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“Because XAML is so darn fun to say. Zaml.”
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...

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FAQ: how to prevent {x:Null} from being written by XAML writer
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...

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Empty string in XAML
Krishna Bhargav shows how to declare String.Empty() in XAML in “ Declaring Empty String in XAML ”.  XAML 2009 will continue with this same behavior.

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XAML: Using Generic Types in XAML 2009
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...

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