Saturday, April 29, 2023

What if your XAML code was much simpler?

Over the last 6 months, I've given talks at a dozen user groups and conferences. 

In those sessions, I've discussed some of the thinking and experimentation I've done over the last couple of years, exploring ways of improving how we think about and work with XAML.

With each talk, I've refined and expanded my thoughts based on feedback and discussions with attendees immediately afterward.  (Yes, I'm prepared to drive 4 hours each way for the chance to talk about XAML--I get it; that makes me an outlier.)

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I've been reluctant to share too much detail while I refine how I communicate these ideas. 

I can spend an hour talking about how C# best practices can be applied to XAML and how it makes a massive difference to the code you write, but no one wants to read that. (Please tell me if I'm wrong.)

I can also show you how I can take even a relatively simple XAML file and massively reduce the complexity. But the difference is so big it's easy to miss all the changes and understand why the differences are there.

As I start to work out how I can best share these ideas, I'm putting together small videos and pieces of writing to explain the differences and the tools I've made to help.

Here's a short video demonstrating one such tool that I released on my YouTube channel this week.

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I'd love your thoughts on the video, and on the tool if you try it.


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