Microsoft last week admitted that while it added new features to the Visual Studio XAML Designer over the years, the tool lost some of its allure among developers, who spoke up about dragging ...

Alan McGovern, the creator of MonoTorrent, has spent the past 12 weeks developing a visual design tool for XAML that runs on Mono. Although McGovern had no previous experience with either Silverlight ...

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Claiming an industry first, Userware announced a drag-and-drop XAML designer for use in Visual Studio Code, coming with OpenSilver 3.1, the latest iteration of the open-source implementation of ...

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Uno Studio’s preview of its new Hot Design tool makes working with live XAML a convenient, interactive process for designers and developers. Developer productivity is one of those topics that never ...

After the first part of this series dealt with Windows Forms, we will now look at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows UI Library 3 (WinUI 3). Both GUI frameworks are based on XAML ...

Crafting a Web strategy is important for any thriving business. However, implementing that strategy with rich Internet applications is not always as easy as it should be. To ease that pain, Microsoft ...

Silverlight — Microsoft’s answer to Adobe Flash and Flex and several other RIA (rich Internet application) and AJAX frameworks — arrived with a flourish just over one year ago. Silverlight 1.0 (see my ...

HTML5, with its promises of plug-in free browsing, a 3D graphics and animation API, built-in video and audio tags, an offline data store, and Web Workers to manage long-running background processes, ...