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Billy Hollis: a walkthrough basic WPF/Silverlight layout + XAML concepts
DotNetRocksTV (dnrTV) just posted a discussion (with video of action in VS) with Billy Hollis that goes through a number of concepts in WPF/Silverlight layout (Grid, StackPanel, size to content), ContentControl (Button, ToolTip),  and XAML (attached...

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The 8 Benefits of XAML for UI and Beyond
Given another 4 years of experience since I wrote “ Our 7 Goals for XAML ”, here is my updated list of XAML Benefits: XAML Describes Data in a Concise, but Human and Machine Comprehensible, Way Declarative formats provide the best and most concise way...

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WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News – 2008-11-04
WPF Apps Carlos Quintero: Visual Studio 2010 PDC session: customizing and extending your developing environment . Scott Guthrie announced at PDC that VS2010 would have Shell UI and code editor made with WPF.  This session goes into some details…...

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PDC08 News: XAML in .NET 4: XAML2009 & System.Xaml.dll
At PDC 08, Daniel Roth and I had a great time sharing info about the next wave of XAML goodness coming to .NET 4. http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL36/ has the full video (also the powerpoint is downloadable)…about 60 minutes of presentation and demo...

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PDC08: WPF Talks & Rob’s Schedule
11/2/2008: Update…I’ve added links to the videos of those sessions… I’ll be arriving in LA tonight and I’m looking forward to a great week with developers from around the world! The WPF team is delivering a number of sessions that should be of interest...

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[MS-SLXV] Silverlight XAML Vocabulary 2008 Specification v0.9 Published
Silverlight’s XAML Vocabulary Specification has been published! On Monday (October 13th, 2008), a press release announced the availability of Silverlight 2 .  Contained in that press release was the following mentions in bold about [MS-SLXV] Silverlight...

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DomBox
Yesterday we did an API / conceptual model review with Mike Hillberg and John Gossman from WPF/Silverlight and Chris Anderson and Don Box from WCF/WF/etc… We got a bunch of great feedback…and we’ve only made it through half the deck we had prepared. To...

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PDC08: XAML Talk
10/31/2008 Update: The talk is over now...I summarize and link to the video of the talk here: PDC08 News: XAML in .NET 4: XAML2009 & System.Xaml.dll I’m very excited about the XAML talk that Daniel Roth and I are giving at PDC08 this October. Althought...

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PDC08 XAML Talk – preview jpeg

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XamlWriter.Save’s Foundation: MarkupObject/MarkupProperty
I’m prototyping and helping design some improvements in XamlWriter.Save() similar to the work that you can see on this wpf forum post about making a faster xamlwriter . Looking at MSDN’s System.Windows.Markup.Primitives namespace, you’ll see the api documentation...

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WPF/XAML/Silverlight Web News - 2008/09/05
WPF Controls Actipro: PropertyGrid for WPF is almost ready - I've heard a bunch of requests for a property grid from us before.  Blend/Cider use the same one, which I've asked them to ship...but there are no short term plans on that one. ...

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theunixgeek: Why XAML is powerful
I just added a small comment to " Why XAML is powerful " about XAML/MXML/NIB and more.

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WPF/Silverlight/XAML Web News - 2008/05/23
My latest links about WPF (Apps, Controls, 3.5sp1 beta, HowTo, for LOB), Silverlight, XAML and URLs WPF Apps Expression Blog: Deep Zoom Composer Update .  Yet another WPF based application shipping from MS.  This one helps people author content...

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Bjarne Stroustrup on DSLs
MSDN magazine included an interview of Bjarne Stroustrup on the Evolution of Languages .  Interesting to read his thoughts on DSLs: HD You commented on your Web site, "I think we should look for elegance in the applications built, rather than...

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XAML editing in SlickEdit
Good question on the slickedit community forum about the best way to configure it to edit XAML.  In Visual Studio we chose to build a XAML Language Service to provide the editing support for XAML files, not reuse the XML Editor. The way we did that...

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