Gavin Gear's Tech Blog

Gavin Gear of the Ink team has created a WinForms app that takes a XAML string and turns it into a javascript

At the risk of looking like I'm nitpicking a quick tool, there are a couple issues:

1. If any of your attribute values contain an apostrophe, even if the apostrophe is represented as an "apos" entity, the resulting Javascript string is invalid XML.

2. Concatenating strings in Javascript has the same overhead as it does in .NET -- every concatenate copies the entire string. The generated code would be faster and consume less memory if it pushed the strings onto a Javascript array, then used the join() method of the array to generate the final string.

Nice. How about support for going the other way around? That way you don't have to save the actual xaml if you want to update it, you can always get back to the xaml from the javascript.

For those of you that attended my talk in Salt Lake City - here's the links I referred to in my talk...

Gavin, you should change the JavaScript output to this:

var a = [];

a.push("<Canvas....>");

a.push("...");

a.push("</Canvas>");

var xaml = a.join("");

If used often this is a performance benefit while running JavaScript.

Michael