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The Microsoft Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) technical documentation set provides preliminary technical specifications for this language based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) that enables developers to specify a hierarchy of objects.

• The XAML technical documentation set provides detailed preliminary technical specifications of XAML Object Mapping. This documentation set includes details on XAML’s data model for Types, XAML’s data model for object hierarchies, and the techniques with which one maps from XML to those object hierarchy data model. Also included is documentation of Windows Presentation Foundation’s (WPF) set of Types and of the Silverlight Vocabulary of Types that can be used in conjunction with XAML.

Files

Status: Live This download is still available on microsoft.com. The downloads below will come directly from the Microsoft Download Center.

File	Size
MicrosoftComputerLanguages.zip SHA1: 9eb0c0deaf793218d7e4693dd0e5c64c36385e39	58.89 MB
[MS-SLXV-2010].pdf SHA1: 007ea3b740d279c8d1f1826f0cf2278c3937ed13	2.11 MB
[MS-SLXV-5].pdf SHA1: 51e710654a8bed89da1bbe13efd203a7e26f9396	2.46 MB
[MS-SLXV].pdf SHA1: f2ccdd27ded44a49b8209dfd208c47363e19aa0e	1.97 MB
[MS-VBAL].pdf SHA1: dfddf0d5bea10b5e2d51cebef5aa9c088d80e871	2.07 MB
[MS-WPFXV-2010].pdf SHA1: 6ea85ee17413595ec60078d97a8514c9a8749e8b	6.40 MB
[MS-WPFXV-2012].pdf SHA1: 888c5715107a5206c2b82c93a0ebbe70e4fb7987	7.07 MB
[MS-WPFXV-2017-July].pdf SHA1: 96bfc4e3fc5e9473565f13ae526475fe976f3322	7.65 MB
[MS-WPFXV-2017-September].pdf SHA1: 87a6fa8a3866f00f988e1ed450d02875249a6c7d	7.62 MB
[MS-WPFXV-2017].pdf SHA1: 461ff4cb132d86e196ce2d00972517c18d90e3c1	7.31 MB
[MS-WPFXV-2019].pdf SHA1: 14953a15bcf02827987127c23a92aee3eabf1e2d	7.75 MB
[MS-WPFXV].pdf SHA1: 049aedf0c64eb80b8b82052fea77e1e472831df9	5.76 MB
[MS-XAML-2009].pdf SHA1: 3bb969630f1cff993edc6845d66e5c6cf3ee9858	868 KB
[MS-XAML-2012].pdf SHA1: 6760c71f0ab20021505a044110aa54545dbdfa15	867 KB
[MS-XAML-2017].pdf SHA1: 2f18c10bbf7312714eb54eeec4c6c45a5aefc765	985 KB
[MS-XAML].pdf SHA1: 762854edcc7e1f3cd93793e25a3a6818b8286559	2.11 MB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• The specifications are available in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) which you can open using Adobe Reader, available at http://www.adobe.com.

• Individual PDF files should be stored in a single directory to enable links between the protocol specifications.
  
  The self-extracting Zip file (XAML_documentation.zip) contains all of the XAML specifications.