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I AM.........................COMPLETELY............... BLOWN AWAY BY THIS!!!!! WOWWWWWW.... the #1 reason I stopped investigating Xamarin was that it requires you to build 3 different UIs for your solutions. No longer with Xamarin.Forms. I am totally getting rocked with this new feature, as it is precisely what I envisioned last year that needed to be created in order for Xamarin to be feasible. And Xamarin has done EXACTLY THAT. VERY IMPRESSIVE!!! I am even more impressed that Xamarin has actually made a MORE FUNCTIONAL XAML PARSER THAN WinRT!!! That is, in one release, there is support for the IMarkupExtension interface, something that has been lacking from WinRT from its initial release.

I am speechless. Well, not entirely, because I do have a few questions. :)

(I do apologize for my excitedness, as it has been a long painful road since WinRT has been released, and the lack of true Xaml -- with true markup extensions)

1) Tooling. As mentioned in another thread, there appears to be limited support for tooling in Xamarin.Forms solutions. To be more precise, if I open the HelloXamarinFormsWorldXaml solution, and go to the StackLayoutExample1.xaml.cs file, InitializeComponent does not resolve as a symbol. I use ReSharper, so I am wondering if this has something to do with this, and/or if there needs to be a fix from ReSharper (I will be posting in their forums as well).
2) When the heck did Xamarin.Forms release?! :)
3) How does Xamarin.Forms integrate with Universal Apps? That is, it appears I can only make a Windows Phone 8 app currently with Xamarin.Forms. I am curious about the support of this and if there are plans to enable support for Universal Apps.

I cannot stress enough how awesome this is. The lack of IMarkupExtension support in Windows RT was not only a headscratcher, but a heart and deal breaker. It is one of the most powerful features of Xaml, and has been PAINFULLY absent from the latest technology stack. The X in Xaml is for EXTENSIBLE, after all.

Kudos to the Xamarin Team. Wow... this is very impressive. I have been spending the past year and a half in HTML5 hell. It looks like I have finally been saved. :)


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