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Re: You GOT to be kidding me!!
by anon on Wednesday 31/Mar/2004, @14:04

Oh, please - neither of you have the first clue what XAML actually does, and the same (sadly) goes for the author of this article. I really don't like Microsoft or its products, but even having said that I have to admit their implementation of XAML is damn clever.

For your reference, the XAML code is designed to lay out GUI objects. You have this much correct - you can put in tabs, buttons, menu items, etc. All things that XML describes very well.

However, that XAML can then have scripts added to it either in a compiled language (such as C#) or a script language such as JScript. One XAML file can contain a complete application written in VBScript and XAML: both very, very easy (if somewhat verbose and slow) languages. Comparing it to C++ is very stretched, and not accurate - XAML allows you to /fully/ separate design from the code driving it (a place that Qt Designer is rapidly approaching, as opposed to the 95% separation we have now), which means developers can be beavering away in Visual Studio with their C# whilst the designers are pointing and clicking to make the GUI look nice.

As far as I'm concerned, having the GUI defined in XAML and the code written in C# makes life much easier for the Mono developers, so everyone's a winner.

Honestly: did you really think MS made a technology that did nothing but display a fancy GUI?

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Re: You GOT to be kidding me!!
by David on Saturday 03/Apr/2004, @11:51

"However, that XAML can then have scripts added to it either in a compiled language (such as C#) or a script language such as JScript. One XAML file can contain a complete application written in VBScript and XAML: both very, very easy (if somewhat verbose and slow) languages. Comparing it to C++ is very stretched, and not accurate - XAML allows you to /fully/ separate design from the code driving it (a place that Qt Designer is rapidly approaching, as opposed to the 95% separation we have now), which means developers can be beavering away in Visual Studio with their C# whilst the designers are pointing and clicking to make the GUI look nice."

Yes I did know that, and it is still rather pointless. It may be of use to Windows developers, but not to others - that was the point of the article.

"Honestly: did you really think MS made a technology that did nothing but display a fancy GUI?"

Yes, and they have.

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