Article: More Avalon XAML Data Binding Craziness

Hello,

  Chris Sells - Microsoft's Content Strategist for the
Windows 2009 (Longhorn) Developer site - has written a
new article titled "More Avalon XAML Data Binding
Craziness" that builds upon the previous Solitaire
application by adding style selectors into the
existing data-binding mix.


  Chris concludes:

 Avalon seems to be like ASP.NET because of the XAML
syntax, but we're not generating more XAML. Avalon
also seems like the Windows Forms model, but we're not
just adding strings to the Items collection. Instead,
Avalon data binding is something new. The XAML itself
is static and most often compiled into the
application, but we're generating UI elements in the
visual tree at run time. So, for smart clients
connecting to a server to generate dynamic content,
it's unlikely they'll collect XAML but rather data to
bind to the Avalon styles defined in the static XAML,
using styles, style selectors and transformers along
the way to make decisions about which elements to
generate based on the data.  

  Full story @
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnfoghorn/html/foghorn10132004.asp

   - Gerald

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Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 -
http://richcon.com
XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org


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