Binary Application Markup Language

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The Binary Application Markup Language is a file format developed by Microsoft that is generated by compiling XAML files.

{{cite web

| access-date = 2011-08-24

|website= Microsoft MSDN

| title = WPF Globalization and Localization Overview: Localize a WPF Application

| quote = The BAML form of XAML so that you can localize at the same time that you develop.

| url = https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788718.aspx#Localize_a_WPF_Application}}

Generation

An XAML file can be compiled into a Binary Application Markup Language file with the .BAML extension,{{cite web

| access-date = 2011-08-18

| author = unknown

| date = 2009-07-30

| publisher = DOTNET Spider

| title = What is BAML?

| quote = BAML means Binary Application Markup Language, which is a compiled version of the XAML. When you compile your XAML, it creates the BAML file.

| url = http://www.dotnetspider.com/forum/216053-What-BAML.aspx}} which may be inserted as a resource into a .NET Framework assembly. At run-time, the framework engine extracts the .BAML file from assembly resources, parses it, and creates a corresponding WPF visual tree or workflow. Having this format, the content is loadable faster during runtime, because the XAML is enriched by tokens, and lexical analysis is completed.

References

Category:Application programming interfaces

Category:Operating system technology