The Binary Application Markup Language is a

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developed by

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that is generated by compiling

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Generation

An XAML file can be compiled into a Binary Application Markup Language file with the .BAML

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, which may be inserted as a resource into a

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assembly. At run-time, the framework engine extracts the .BAML file from assembly resources, parses it, and creates a corresponding WPF visual tree or

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. Having this format, the content is loadable faster during runtime, because the XAML is enriched by tokens, and lexical analysis is completed.

References

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