WPF 4 Unleashed

Chapter 2. XAML Demystified

IN THIS CHAPTER

• XAML Defined

• Elements and Attributes

• Namespaces

• Property Elements

• Type Converters

• Markup Extensions

• Children of Object Elements

• Mixing XAML with Procedural Code

• Introducing XAML2009

• Fun with XAML Readers and Writers

• XAML Keywords

Throughout .NET technologies, XML is used to expose functionality in a transparent and declarative fashion. XAML, a dialect of XML, has been especially important since its introduction with the first version of WPF in 2006. It is often misunderstood to be just a way to specify user interfaces, much like HTML. By the end of this chapter, you will see that XAML is about much more than arranging controls on a computer screen.

In WPF and Silverlight, XAML ...