CHAPTER 1
What Is XAML?
This chapter is a “crash course” in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). If you are experienced in writing applications using XAML-based technologies, feel free to skim the chapter and pick the parts that interest you. If you don’t have experience writing XAML-based applications, then this chapter is a prerequisite for the rest of the book.
A Brief History of Windows User Interface Design
Before XAML was introduced to the development community, Windows desktop applications were mainly created using the WinForms technology. The WinForms design paradigm is similar to Visual Basic 6–style graphical user interfaces ...
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