3. XAML
Is your head spinning after that whirlwind tour of Win8 XAML development? It’s okay. You can take a deep breath and relax now. In the rest of the book we’ll slow down and look at each area in some detail. We’ll start in this chapter with the XAML language that you’ll use to define the UI of your application declaratively. If you’ve worked with WPF or Silverlight, there won’t be much here that’s new to you—by and large, XAML is XAML. What changes are the namespaces, the widgets, and the way the XAML interacts with the code-behind in a running application.
But don’t panic if you come from a WinForms or WebForms background. You’ve probably ...
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