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Introduction To XAML

Posted by timothy on from the glue-included dept.

prostoalex writes "It was recently reported that Microsoft will integrate its own XML-based language for application programming into the next edition of Windows (codename Longhorn). This Introduction to XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) provides an insight into how it's possible to build a Windows application with Microsoft's brand-new XAML language."

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  1. Re:XML based programming by !3ren · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mmm not so much.
    All this does is abstract the UI from the code.
    (Which is super if you look at the kludgey cra* they have foisted on developers through the VS series of products. I have always liked the ease of use of MS's designers but the resulting code usually made me angry. Nothing like adjusting the attribute of a control in the source and having it crash your IDE.)

    You will still need to write behaviours for any application using XAML.
    I believe there's been a couple of O/S projects that have done the same thing for a couple of years (abstracting UI to XML) but I'm not sure of the names..

  2. Nothing new actually by Mastos · · Score: 5, Informative

    The idea of XML-based interface definition has been around well before XAML. There are a ton of XML user interface languages around: http://xul.sourceforge.net/. Hell, Mozilla is built around it: http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul