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XAML (short for Extensible Application Markup Language and pronounced as “zammel”) is a markup language used to instantiate .NET objects. Although XAML is a technology that can be applied to many different problem domains, its primary role in life is to construct WPF user interfaces. In other words, XAML documents define the arrangement of panels, buttons, and controls that make up the windows in a WPF application.

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© 2010 Matthew MacDonald

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MacDonald, M. (2010). XAML. In: Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.0. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-7204-5_2

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