Designing XAML User Interfaces from a Different Perspective
XAML brings many benefits to developing user interfaces, but requires you to take a different approach to laying out the controls on the page and interacting with the code-behind. If you primarily develop Windows Forms applications, you are probably used to simply dropping controls on a form and pushing data into them from the code-behind. Essentially, you are probably used to the code-behind controlling the user interface, with the user interface functioning in a subservient role.
While this structure is still possible in Silverlight, the power of XAML enables the user interface to take the controlling role, with the code-behind (or a ViewModel, which is a part of the Model-View-ViewModel ...
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