Some Notes About XAML2009

Version 4.0 of the .NET Framework, released in the first half of 2010, introduced a handful of new features for the XAML language. This second generation of the XAML language is referred to as XAML2009. (To differentiate, the first generation is sometimes referred to as XAML2006.)

The XAML2009 features, outlined in this section, are nothing revolutionary but represent a nice set of incremental improvements to XAML. However, don’t get too excited; it is unlikely you will be able to take advantage of them. With the exception of WCF and WF projects, they are not usable in typical projects because XAML compilation for all the other frameworks uses the XAML2006-based APIs. XAML2009 never really took off for the UI frameworks. ...

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