White Papers

What Is XAML?

A very short introduction to the concepts and potential benefits of XAML.

Events, In-line Code, and Code-Behind

This white paper discusses the different modalities for binding events to application code and code-behind code with MyXaml.

Managing Events With An Event Pool

A key architectural element in application design is the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The MVC pattern is a very useful pattern when using markup to generate the presentation layer--the markup helps to compartmentalize information into different views. The MVC pattern is very event oriented, which can be a burden on the programmer to set up and manage all the delegates and events. The Event Pool automates a lot of this and instruments the event calls, and is therefore of interest to the overall architecture of an application using markup to generate the presentation layer.

Writing XAML-Friendly Assemblies

How do you write an assembly so that it's easy to plug in to a markup structure? This article discusses the six golden rules to make your assembly friendly to XAML parsers.