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Its here! We're all very excited about this release. Its been a treat to work on a product that you are actually excited to use. New features and tools include: Visual Studio .NET 2003 integration, which lets you visually design forms and generate XAML user interface code with Visual Studio. Declarative...

You've got to love this , thanks Mr. Stern ! Read or write comments on this entry

Article Summary: Illustrates a new way of building dynamic user interfaces that automatically respond to changes in a data model and update their appearance by using binding relationships between the elements in the UI. This example uses a 100% XAML approach to demonstrate these relationships, called...

I've been testing a program that converts Adobe Illustrator SVG to XAML and I really wanted to give it a work out, so I decided to draw a card. Cards are symbolic and familiar and commonly have ornate designs so I thought it would be a perfect test. My work flow here was to draw the image in Illustrator...

Hmm, maybe I should go out and get one of these Read or write comments on this entry

Keith Hill asked a question in nntp://microsoft.public.windows.development.winfx.avalon I've seen this in several XAML examples on the root XML element and I've seen plenty of examples without this attribute. When is it needed and is the value "root" special? About IDs First let's talk about IDs. TheRHogue...

My XAML Calculator Sample is now available on GotDotNet for download as a User Sample . This sample was built on Longhorn v4051 and will not work on v4074 without editing the referenced Namespaces. Once I get v4074 I plan on updating the sample and taking over the huge open source calculator market.

After receiving good feedback on my counter sample , I've completed my second entry for the XUL Grand Coding Challenge 2004 , the Calculator. This sample was completed in Longhorn v4051 and setup as a project in Visual Studio “Whidbey” (PDC Release). The project files are available for download...

Adam Kinney has posted his xaml app that he entered into a markup-bakeoff that Gerald Bauer organized. Nice job Adam. Follow Adam's link to all the entries - they are very interesting to read through. Visual Appearance I found it interesting that the different entries all had different looks based on...

Marc Clifton has started an interesting conversation on defining XAML as a specific language or just a “way of declaratively instantiating classes in the DOM”.