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Pro XAML with C#: Application Development Strategies
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Pro XAML with C#: Application Development Strategies

by Buddy James, Lori Lalonde
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
296 pages
7h 27m
English
Apress
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Introduction

I started developing applications in .NET, using WinForms and ASP.NET. WinForms was a great improvement over Visual Basic 6. ASP.NET WebForms introduced a form-focused, event-driven user interface model similar to WinForms. A major difference was the way in which the user interface was defined.

Visual Studio offered WYSIWYG design support for both technologies. The key difference was that WinForms user interfaces were represented in procedural C# and ASP.NET WebForms that were built in declarative HTML. I’ve always loved the expressive nature of HTML. Even though I preferred developing user interfaces for the Web, desktop applications seemed to offer more power. I like to have complete access to the computer’s resources.

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