frankhileman | 19 Sep 21:59

Xamlon vs MyXaml "review"

Someone decided to do their own comparision of Xamlon and MyXaml. 
Read about it here:
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Gerald Bauer | 20 Sep 19:33
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Re: Xamlon vs MyXaml "review"

Hello,

> Someone decided to do their own comparision of Xamlon and MyXaml. 
> Read about it here:

  Thanks for highlighting the post. If anyone wants to discuss Martin
Maat's post you're more than welcome. To make it easy on everybody
here's the complete post:

For the last couple of days I have been trying to get started with
XAML and I am having mixed feelings so far. I first want to share my
experiences and then ask a specific question.

A couple of months ago I first read about Xamlon and thought it would
be worth while to check out. When I was finally ready to do so, having
an application in mind, I looked a bit further and found MyXaml and
wanted to know the differences upfront in order to make the right
choice, not willing to learn both. I learned that Xamlon targeted
Longhorn, with the ambition to be as close to the final Longhorn XAML
as possible once that would be released. Fine, that was basically what
I was after. Then I read about MyXaml, which had some smart-ass author
that was critsizing the Avalon team for most everything they were
doing on the XAML front. His MyXaml would be much cleaner, better,
blah blah, et cetera...  Well, it didn't seem unreasonable but since
my first aim was to prepare for Longhorn, I chose Xamlon.

  After a day and a half of sheer agony I removed Xamlon and installed
MyXaml after all which, up until now, leaves a far better impression.
I will present the biggest drawbacks of Xamlon as I experienced them.
"Not to bash you guys, I just want you to do better" (that's what the
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