WPF and Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) are closely tied to each other. This video looks that the history of XAML and shows how XAML is related to WPF.
- [Instructor] WPF contains many innovations…and it also follows UI development trends.…One trend that shows no sign of stopping…is to use a markup language to describe the application UI.…WPF follows this trend using a variant of XML…to define the UI layer of the desktop application.…This variant is known as…Extensible Application Markup Language,…also written as XAML, which is usually pronounced as zammel.…One fascinating part of XAML…is the way Microsoft implemented it.…
They built it to be a generalized way to represent objects.…Stated another way, it's an XML language…to create and instantiate .NET objects.…Isn't that interesting?…The usual explanation found in many articles…is that XAML is a UI definition language.…Well, that's true in a sense,…because it was created in conjunction with WPF…and WPF is a UI rendering engine…and it's a framework that is optimized…for creating desktop applications.…But XAML is more flexible than that.…It's not tied exclusively to UI development.…
In fact, it can work with any object-oriented managed API.…
- Why choose Windows Presentation Foundation?
- Exploring the project types
- Creating a WPF project in Visual Studio
- Exploring assemblies and parts
- Using the XAML editor
- Creating the UI, including tabs, details, and controls
- Using data binding
- Adding styles
- Writing interaction code
- Using control templates, 3D parts, and effects
Skill Level Intermediate
Learning Visual Studio Team Serviceswith Jose Miguel Rady Allende1h 17m Intermediate
2. Create a WPF Application
3. Create the UI
4. Examples and Concepts
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