Xamlon
- Building XAML Applications
Xamlon
is an engine to build XAML applications. This engine can be used as a
plug-in with Visual Studio .Net to develop XAML applications. XAML stands
for eXtensible Application Markup Language. It is said that this is the
markup language that is used to build the user interfaces and the events
of the user interfaces in the upcoming Windows Operating System, Longhorn.
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This
markup language is mostly used to build user interfaces for the software
applications very easily. To use this language to build user interfaces,
the Xamlon engine is used. When you install the Xamlon engine in your
system, if your system has Visual Studio .Net installed then this Xamlon
engine is installed as a plug-in for Visual Studio .Net.
Xamlon
comes with a three major types of engines, one is for the .Net compact
framework, the other is for producing flash swf files called the Flash
edition and the final one is the Windows Forms editon.
·
.Net compact edition:
This edition is used for building XAML applications for the .Net compact
framework using the markup language and the .Net compact framework.
· Flash edition:
This edition is used to create flash applications using the markup language
(XAML) and any language in the .Net framework.
· Windows Forms edition:
This edition of Xamlon is used to build windows applications using the
markup language very quickly.
The above
editions are available as downloads in trial versions and beta versions
for testing. Xamlon is available as an MSI download and it is easy to
install using this way. The Xamlon engine comes with a lot of sample,
an XAML viewer, an XAML Pad and a standalone XAML Editor.
Avalon is
the codename for the runtime that interprets the XAML documents and converts
them into interactive applications. The Xamlon editor can also import
SVG files to work with. The Xamlon engine after installing as a plug-in
in Visual Studio .Net, you can create Xamlon Applications by opening a
new project in Visual Studio .Net. The installation adds a new project
type called “Xamlon Application” to the templates already available
in Visual Studio .Net. This adds a Visual designer to the Visual Studio
.Net IDE, so that you can easily create and edit the XAML documents.
Consider
the structure of the XAML code that is given below to understand how XAML
looks like to create user interfaces and how to convert them to flash
files using Xamlon Flash edition.
<?xml
version="1.0"?>
<Canvas id=bkCanvas Background="Black" Height="400"
Width="400">
<Canvas id="redRect" Height="150" Width="150">
<Rectangle
RectangleWidth="150"
RectangleHeight="150"
Fill="Blue"
Stroke="LightBlue"
StrokeThickness="1"
/>
</Canvas >
</Canvas >
Let the code
given above be stored in an XAML file named sample.xaml. The code given
above is very simple and self-explanatory. This code build a canvas for
the rectangle that is to be displayed. The canvas id is ‘bkCanvas’
and the background of the canvas is set to black color using the attribute
Background. The height and width of the canvas are set to 400 using the
height and width attributes. This canvas holds another canvas for the
rectangle that is to be displayed. The code for creating the rectangle
is much like the code in SVG. The attributes of the rectangle like ‘RectangleWidth’,
‘RectangleHeight’, ‘Fill’ for the color to be filled
in the rectangle, ‘Stroke’ for the stroke color, and the ‘StrokeThickness’
are given. We have given one canvas within one another since we are going
to access this canvas from our C# code and rotate that canvas to a certain
angle.
The code
to access the above given canvas is given below in C#:
public class
rectCls
{
public static void Main()
{
MovieClip clpRect = MovieClip.Root.GetInstance("bkCanvas.redRect");
clpRect.Rotation = 40;
}
}
The above
code when compiled will give a rotated rectangle. You can compile the
above C# code as given below:
cswf /xaml:sample.xaml /r:SwfNative.dll /launch sample.cs
For the above
code to be executed you should have installed Xamlon flash edition, since
the above code will run a flash swf movie after the compilation of the
C# code.
It is possible
to develop more complex XAML applications with rich interfaces using the
Xamlon engine in Visual Studio .Net. In future runtime engines for mobile
platforms could promote rich scalable XAML applications for the mobile
devices.
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