By ananth, on May 4th, 2008
One of the features I spent a lot of time thinking about, and implementing are: “deferred” ProvideValue calls on MarkupExtensions. In a XAML markup extension, ProvideValue is called when the tree is being loaded, and sometimes, it may be impossible to provide a value at that time. Also, since XAML makes use of internal classes like . . . → Read More: Markup extensions in Xoml
By ananth, on May 4th, 2008
I’ve had the XOML project registered on CodePlex since my last post, but it is now published. An early 0.1 pre-release version is also available. This version allows you to load hand-written Xoml, although XomlWriter isn’t far behind.
To get stared with Xoml, the unit tests are probably the best place to start poking around. Feel free . . . → Read More: XOML on CodePlex
By ananth, on April 13th, 2008
For a long time, I’ve been writing about how messed up Xaml is because of WPF-interdependency, and how Microsoft should have decoupled the Xaml bits from WPF, etc (Some of these rants were on my old blog). Well, I finally decided to do something about it, and I’m writing a XAML-like library that loads, and writes . . . → Read More: XAML without WPF = XOML