Xaml Developer Reference

Your expert guide to designing and building dynamic user interfaces

Sharpen your application design and development skills using XAML—the declarative markup language used in Microsoft® Silverlight® and Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF). Led by two XAML experts, youll learn practical ways to build rich, interactive user interfaces with data integration capabilities and support for multimedia, graphics, and animation. This hands-on guide is ideal for Microsoft .NET developers and web designers alike.

Discover how to:

• Control UI behavior and implement business logic with code-behind solutions
• Manage UI element positioning with the XAML layout system
• Use templates to customize UI elements—without affecting their functionality
• Apply different types of property and event systems in WPF and Silverlight
• Bind various kinds of data to your UI, and display them in the format you want
• Implement 2D and 3D vector graphics and animations
• Reuse control styles and properties to maintain consistency throughout your application

Sharpen your application development skills with XAML—the markup language used in Microsoft® Silverlight®, Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Phone 7. Led by expert authors, you'll learn practical ways to develop rich user interfaces for a variety of web applications with XAML. This hands-on guide is complete with code examples—ideal whether you're a web designer or Microsoft .NET developer.

Discover how to:

• Work with XAML elements, attributes, and controls
• Create user interfaces with the XAML layout system
• Apply attached properties and dependency properties
• Implement XAML markup extensions, including extensions specific to WPF
• Customize the look of XAML elements with styles, and use triggers to control element behavior
• Perform data binding in XAML while exploiting the benefits and avoiding the pitfalls
• Build storyboards to create animations with XAML elements

Mamta Dalal is an active contributor to the .NET community and has been given the C# Corner MVP award two years in a row (2009 and 2010). She also holds an MCTS in Windows Client application development.

Ashish Ghoda is founder and president of Technology Opinion LLC, and an accomplished author with with over 14 years of experience in enterprise architecture, application development, and technical and financial management.