Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

27.6. Transforming Markup into a .NET Assembly

To understand exactly how your markup was transformed into a .NET assembly, you need to dig a bit deeper into the msbuild.exe process and examine a number of compiler-generated files, including a particular binary resource embedded within the assembly at compile time. The first task is to learn how your *.xaml files are transformed into a corresponding C# code base.

27.6.1. Mapping the Window XAML Data to C# Code

The *.targets files specified in a msbuild script contain numerous instructions to translate XAML elements into C# code. When msbuild.exe processed your *.csproj file, it produced two files with the form *.g.cs (where g denotes autogenerated) that were saved into the \obj\Debug directory. ...