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Dev tools · November 2, 2016

Cynical Developer: XAML is Dead, Long Live XAML

Time of death... oh wait, we're good

Cynical Developer: XAML is Dead, Long Live XAML launched on November 2, 2016 with 53 votes, #1,375 of 3,636 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

In this Episode we talk with Gavin Lanata about XAML. Gavin explains what XAML is, where it came from and what the future for XAML is. Turns out its still kicking and so is Winforms.

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