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
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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 It’s great that you can reference other objects in a resource dictionary in a XAML file. This makes it particularly interesting to me, since I go the whole hog and almost everything is a resource. For example, in my application (its a sort of scene graph), textures, materials and even animations are resources which other objects . . . → Read More: Resolving forward references in XAML Every time I see something about XAML, its always WPF. Sure, WPF was probably the reason XAML has come into being, but its so much more than just a backbone for a presentation framework. Just googling for XAML gives me this, all of it WPF. Well don’t flame this post just yet. Sure, its was meant for . . . → Read More: Xaml != WPF |
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