Essential XAML

UI Virtualization vs. Data Virtualization (Part 1) by Tomer Shamam

Part 2 Being an LOB, composite applications infrastructure junky lately, I’ve been working around with several data-binding models and mechanisms to bind the data with the view, in a very efficient way of course. Sometime it was easy, and sometime it was not! I have had to find several workarounds to overcome both architectural and performance issues. In this post I would like to concentrate on Data Virtualization, and to compare it with UI Virtualization, which are very similar, yet different aspects...

10 Reasons to Love XAML by Tomer Shamam

Many of my customers and students ask me: What is XAML good for? Why do I have to write XAML if I can write WPF with code? So I decided to write a post about it, sorted by the most important to the less essential. 1. It’s the Designer best friend WPF is not just about another UI platform, it’s also a methodology. It provides new tools and concepts for creating a modern presentation layer. Programmers write code, but when it comes to drawing…, OMG! To overcome this problem, a new member is introduced...