DevX Article: Learn to Write XAML Apps Today

Hello,

  DevX has published an article titled "Learn to Write
XAML Applications Today with Xamlon" by Alex Hildyard.

   Alex writes:

   XAML is an XML-based markup language that describes
UI content and behavior. The concept is similar to the
combination of HTML and JavaScript used in Web
applications today, but far more ambitious. "Avalon"
is the codename for the runtime that interprets XAML
documents and turns them into interactive
applications.

   And Alex concludes:

   Xamlon's founders haven't chosen the easiest path.
On one hand, Xamlon may find market share because it
offers Avalon's technology today, but will you want to
use Xamlon when Avalon is finally released? A few
months ago, many would have considered Xamlon because
it offers back-level support for all the Windows
variants that can run the .NET 1.1 runtime, but
Microsoft recently pledged to implement WinFX—the
technology that underpins Avalon—on both Windows XP
and Windows Server 2003. That still doesn't give
Avalon quite as wide an O/S base as Xamlon—but does it
make sense to target Windows 98 in 2005?

  Full story @
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/22341 or
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/22341/1954?pf=true

  - Gerald

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


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