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We’re not going to get into a real fight in this talk, don’t worry. Instead we are going to compare the 2 popular languages in their current state and see what the benefits and disadvantages are. Maybe we’ll throw some Angular in the battle as well and see what influence that has on the outcome of the match. After this talk, you’ll be better armed in your next meeting on which technology you should use for your next project!
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Comparing XAML and HTML:FIGHT
XAML HTML
About Gill Cleeren (aka Mr XAML)
• .NET Architect @Ordina (www.ordina.be) • Microsoft Regional Director and Client Dev MVP• Techorama conference owner• Speaker • Visug user group lead (www.visug.be)• Author• Pluralsight trainer
www.snowball.be
@gillcleeren
About Kevin DeRudder (aka Mr HTML)• Lecturer at New Media and Communications Technologie • Owner eGuidelines• IE Dev MVP• Techorama conference owner• Visug user group lead (www.visug.be)
kevinderudder.wordpress.be
@kevinderudder
GOAL
• Comparison of 2 technologies• XAML (Windows 8, Silverlight)• HTML
• Give you an overview of what each technology can or cannot do!• 60 minutes• 10 topics• 3 minutes per topic
• YOU DECIDE!• Please decide quickly!
Fasten your seatbelt!
Match agenda
• Round 1: Layout• Round 2: Managing styles• Round 3: Drawing• Round 4: Local data• Round 5: Services• Round 6: Data binding• Round 7: Audio and video playback• Round 8: Controls• Round 9: Uh oh, some OO!• Round 10: Unit testing• Final scores!
ROUND 1: LAYOUT
Requirements for this round
• Responsive, resolution independent• Easy table based layout• Layout management system built-in
XAML
Layout in XAML
• Layout is done based on a number of built-in elements (“layout management elements”)• General, available in any XAML technology:
• Canvas• StackPanel• Grid
• Silverlight• DockPanel• WrapPanel
• Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8.1• GridView• ListView• Semantic Zoom
Canvas
• Positional layout• Positioning of elements is done relative to owning canvas
• Very lightweight container• “Drawing” panel, similar to a Form in WinForms• Not the best choice for
flexible, responsive UIs• Positioning done based on
attached properties
<Canvas Width="150" Height="100" Background="Gray"> <Rectangle Canvas.Top="10" Canvas.Left="10" Width="130" Height="80" Fill="Blue" /> <Canvas Canvas.Left="20" Canvas.Top="20" Width="110" Height="60" Background="Black"> <Ellipse Canvas.Top="10" Canvas.Left="10" Width="90" Height="40" Fill="Orange" /> </Canvas></Canvas>
StackPanel
• Automatic layouting of its child elements• Stacks elements horizontally or vertically
• Very simple control• OK for flexible Uis• Not for an entire page though
<StackPanel Background="Gray" Orientation="Horizontal" > <Rectangle Width="100" Height="100" Fill="Blue" /> <Ellipse Width="100" Height="100" Fill="Orange" /></StackPanel>
Grid
• Powerful layout control• Ready for responsive UIs• Versatile for all resolutions
• Not “shared” as the same control for tabular data display• Not visible• No rows and columns
• Each cell can contain 1 element by default• More possible due to nesting
• Nesting is often applied for a page
Grid
<Grid Background="Gray" Width="100" Height="100"> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/> <ColumnDefinition Width="2*"/> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition /> <RowDefinition /> </Grid.RowDefinitions> <Rectangle Fill="Blue" Width="50" Height="50" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="0" /> <Rectangle Fill="Red" Width="50" Height="50" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="0" /> <Rectangle Fill="Green" Width="50" Height="50" Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" /></Grid>
Windows 8 specific controls
• ListView• GridView• FlipView• Semantic zoom• Touch-optimized!
HTML
<header /><main> <aside></aside> <section> <article> <header /> <footer /> </article> </section></main><footer />
Layout in HTML
• Layout in HTML is done by a combination of HTML <tags> and CSS {styles} • Don’t position your elements by using <br/> or <p/> tags
• HTML • Each element (except <div>) has its own purpose• If you use older browsers, use modernizr or add the elements via JavaScript to the DOM
main { display: block;}
aside > nav { display: -ms-flex; -ms-flex-flow: row wrap; flex-flow: row wrap;}
Layout in HTML
• Layout in HTML is done by a combination of HTML <tags> and CSS {styles} • Don’t position your elements by using <br/> or <p/> tags
• CSS• Hardest part• Add a reset CSS to your page
• reset.css or normalize.css• Use a Grid System to make this easier for you
• 960grid• Twitter bootstrap• …
Before I continue: NO TABLES
The common options
• {display:block;} to have a newline before and after the element• {display:inline;} to put the element inside text or another
element• {display:inline-block;} to have an inline element with features
of a block element like width and height
• {display:table;} to create table in CSS instead of HTML
<div style="display: table;"> <div style="display: table-row;"> <div style="display: table-cell;"> </div> </div></div>
FlexBox
• {display:flex;}• CSS3 specification• Used to arrange elements on the page • + lots of options• Better than using Floats
.flex { width: 525px; height: 300px; border: 1px solid #000000; display: flex; flex-direction: row;}
.flex > div { flex: 1 1 auto; }
.flex > div:nth-child(1) { background: #000000; }
.flex > div:nth-child(2) { background: #f3f32f; }
.flex > div:nth-child(3) { background: #ff0000; }
Comparing XAML and HTML:FIGHT
XAML HTML
ROUND 2: Managing Styles
Requirements for this round
• Make it easier to work with styles• Make it possible to make styles use variables
HTML
Styles in HTML
Styles in HTML CSS
• No easy way to maintain large CSS Stylesheets
• SOLUTION: CSS Precompilers• SASS• LESS• Stylus• CSS Crush• …
@techdays-color: rgb(255,188,0);@techdays-darkerColor: (@vision-color + #111);
body{background-color: @vision-color;border: 1px solid @vision-darkerColor;
}
@width: 960px;
.middle{width: @width * 2 / 3;
}
.left, .right{width: @width / 6;
}
header{background-color: orange;
nav{background-color: darken(orange, 10%);
}nav a{ text-decoration: none;
&:hover{text-decoration: underline;}}
}
header {background-color: orange;}header nav {background-color: #cc8400;}header nav a {text-decoration: none;}header nav a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
XAML
Styles
• Blocks of UI elements that can be reused• Limited to properties of elements• Are tied to type for which they are defined
<Grid> <Grid.Resources> <Style TargetType="Rectangle" x:Key="Outlined"> <Setter Property="StrokeThickness" Value="2" /> <Setter Property="Stroke" Value="Black"/> </Style> </Grid.Resources>
<Rectangle Fill="#FF808080" Width="100" Height="50" Style="{StaticResource Outlined}" StrokeThickness="5" /></Grid>
Styles
• Should have name and TargetType defined• TargetType is polymorphic
• Static or dynamic (only in WPF)• Aren’t really cascading,
although we can build a hierarchy of styles• Similar to CSS
<Style x:Key="BaseControl" TargetType="Control"> <Setter Property="FontWeight" Value="Bold" /></Style>
<Style x:Key="ButtonStyle1" TargetType="Button" BasedOn="{StaticResource BaseControl}"> <Setter Property="FontFamily" Value="Verdana" /> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="18" /></Style>
Variables in styles: through data binding• Inside a style setter, we can do data-binding• Not really a variable though
• How it works:• Create an object• Bind a style to it• When the object changes, the bound values in the setters will also change
Variables in styles: through data binding
Object
StyleView
View
View
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XAML HTML
ROUND 3: DRAWING
Requirements
• Vector-based• Resolution-independent
XAML
Drawing in XAML
• All drawing is vector-based• No problems with different resolution
• Based on hierarchy of shapes• Shape base class• Rectangle• Ellipse• Line• Polygon• Polyline• Path
Drawing in XAML
• Basic properties• Fill• Stroke• Width• Height• Opacity• Visibility• Cursor (depending on platform)
Brushes
• Shapes can have fill and stroke• Brushes
• SolidColorBrush• LinearGradientBrush• RadialGradientBrush• ImageBrush• VideoBrush (depending on platform)
Fill
Stroke
Complex drawings: Geometries
<Path Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="2"> <Path.Data> <PathGeometry> <PathGeometry.Figures> <PathFigure StartPoint="5,25"> <PathFigure.Segments> <BezierSegment Point1="25,0" Point2="75,50" Point3="95,25" /> </PathFigure.Segments> </PathFigure> </PathGeometry.Figures> </PathGeometry> </Path.Data></Path>
HTML
Drawing in HTML
• Is not so easy, but great things can be achieved
• Posibilities• Canvas• SVG• WebGL• Plain Old JavaScript
• Which option you pick, JavaScript needs to be your friend• Or you should try CSS3D
Canvas
• Typical choice for most HTML games• Simple• But fast
• Bitmapped area, so drawn objects become part of the canvas which makes it impossible to attach event handlers
• When objects move, you must redraw the canvas
SVG
• XML based vector graphics format• Less performant but very flexible
• Each drawn object becomes part of the DOM• Attach one or more event handlers to it
<svg width="320" height="320"> <defs> <radialGradient id="circleGrad"> <stop offset="100%" stop-color="rgb( 0, 255, 0)" /> </radialGradient> </defs>
<ellipse fill="url(#circleGrad)" stroke="#000" cx="50%“ cy="50%" rx="50%" ry="50%"> </ellipse></svg>
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XAML HTML
ROUND 4: LOCAL DATA
Requirements
• Offer simple way to store user data locally
HTML
Local storage in HTML
• If you want to store data locally, you can choose between these options• Cookies (which I will not explain)• LocalStorage / SessionStorage• IndexedDB• WebSQL
LocalStorage / SessionStorage
• SessionStorage• Temporary key/value pairs• 1 session per tab/windows
• LocalStorage• Same as session storage but persistant• Global usage in multiple instances of your browser
localStorage.setItem("rememberMeForALongTime", anyObject);
sessionStorage.setItem("rememberMeForALittleWhile", anyObject);var anyObject = sessionStorage.getItem("rememberMeForALittleWhile");
var anyObject = localStorage.getItem("rememberMeForALongTime");
IndexedDB
• API for client-side storage of data• Local and session storage is good for small amounts of data• IndexedDB is ideal for large amounts of data
• Transactional database System
• Boost performance by using indexes
XAML
Local data in Silverlight
• Silverlight and Windows Phone define IsolatedStorage• Can store data on Client Machine
• Size of storage is quota'd• Mostly used to save state/settings
Local data in Silverlight
// Get the Store and Streamusing (IsolatedStorageFile file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication())using (IsolatedStorageFileStream stream = file.CreateFile("Foo.config")){ // Save Some Data StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(stream); writer.WriteLine("AutoRun=true"); writer.Flush(); stream.Close();}
Reading a file from IsolatedStorage
// Get the Store and Streamusing (IsolatedStorageFile file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication())using (IsolatedStorageFileStream stream = file.OpenFile("Foo.config", FileMode.Open)){ // Read Some Data StreamReader rdr = new StreamReader(stream); string config = rdr.ReadToEnd(); stream.Close();}
IsolatedStorageSettings
• Simple usage to create Application Settings• Use IsolatedStorageSettings to set/get settings
• ApplicationSettings are per .xap• SiteSettings are per domain
IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings["foo"] = "bar";string appFoo = IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings["foo"] as string;
IsolatedStorageSettings.SiteSettings["foo"] = "bar";string siteFoo = IsolatedStorageSettings.SiteSettings["foo"] as string;
Local data in Windows 8/Windows Phone 8• Defines Application Data API• Local• Roaming• Temporary
• Based on• File system• Settings (automatically persisted)
Application data API
Local
Local folder
Roaming
Synced folder
Temp
Temp (local) folder
Local Settings
(Registry)
Synced Settings
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ROUND 5: SERVICES
Requirements
• Access (relational) data behind a service• RESTful interaction with the service
XAML
Services in XAML
• Silverlight, Windows 8 and Windows Phone share server-technologies that they can communicate with• ASMX• WCF• REST• RSS• Sockets• oData• …
• Common requirement is asynchronous communication• Silverlight: callbacks• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8: await/async pattern
• Note: WPF can use the full, raw power of .NET and thus has even less restrictions
REST service access in Windows 8
• Defines HttpClient (Silverlight and WP7 used WebClient)• Works async
• HttpClient defines• Get(Async)
• Returns an HttpResponseMessage• Put(Async)• Post(Async)• Delete(Async)RESTful!
• Windows 8.1 introduced a new version of the HttpClient• Very similar API
Parsing the response
• XML• Linq-To-XML• XmlReader/XmlWriter• XmlSerializer
• JSON:• Use the JsonObject and feed it the returned string• DataContractJsonSerializer is also available• JSON.NET
• Open source via NuGet• Often the preferred choice
HTML
Services in HTML
• If you want to retrieve data in a browser you have following options• XMLHttpRequest• WebSockets
XmlHttpRequest
• XMLHttpRequest defines an API for transferring data between a client and a server• Client initiates the request• Synchronous or Asynchronous
• Based on the HTTP protocol
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "URL", /*async*/ true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () { if (xhr.readyState == COMPLETE) { if (xhr.status == 200) { var data = xhr.responseText; } }}
xhr.send();
WebSockets
• API for socket connections between a browser and a server• 2-way persistant connection between client and server
• Event-driven responses• Send messages to the server and receive a response without polling the
server
WebSocketsvar socket = new WebSocket("ws://www.mi6.com/socketserver", "yourprotocol");
function sendJamesBondOnASecretMission() { var msg = { type: "message", mission: document.getElementById("mission").value, id: clientID, date: Date.now() }; socket.send(JSON.stringify(msg));}
socket.onmessage = function (event) { var data = event.data;}
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ROUND 6: DATABINDING
Requirements for this round
• Don’t require us to write code likeTextBox1.Text = Person1.FirstName;
• Support two-way binding mode
HTML
Data binding in HTML
• HTML does not know the concept of data binding• You have data and you bind it to a control
• Plenty of JavaScript frameworks available to allow datavbinding in HTML• Knockout• Angular• Mustache• …
• Depending on the framework, the syntax may be different
Data binding with knockout.js
<ul data-bind="foreach: secretAgents"> <li class="secretAgent"> <header> <span data-bind="text: Name"></span> </header> <img data-bind="attr: {alt: name, id: id, src:img}" /> </li></ul>
viewModel = { memories: ko.observableArray(items),};
ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
Data binding with mustache.js
<script id="secretAgents" type="text/html"> <ul> {{#secretAgent}} <li>{{name}}</li> {{/secretAgent}} </ul></script>
$(function () { $.getJSON('@Url.Action("SecretAgents", "MI6")', function (data) { var html = Mustache.to_html($("#secretAgents").html(),{quotes: data });
$("#secretAgents").empty().append(html); })});
XAML
• Infrastructure for binding control properties to objects and collections• Loosely-coupled model, already exists in ASP.NET, WinForms• Simple and powerful model• Source
• Any Object• PropertyPath
• Path To Any Public Property• Dynamic
• Supports multiple Binding Models• OneTime, OneWay and TwoWay
Data Binding in XAML
Data binding in XAML
DataObjectData bindingUI
Control
Converter
• Binding Syntax• Markup Extension• PropertyPath at a minimum
• Or specify Source
• Most often: use a DataContext on a base control
Data Binding
<TextBox Text="{Binding Name}" />
<Grid.Resources> <local:Person x:Key="person1" /></Grid.Resources>...<TextBox Text="{Binding Name, Source={StaticResource person1}}" />
<Grid DataContext={StaticResource person1}> <TextBox Text="{Binding Name}" /></Grid>
• Three Modes for Binding• TwoWay, OneWay or OneTime• Binding Syntax for Mode
• Binding Syntax
• OneWay and OneTime work with any object• Property Based Reads
• TwoWay works with any objects• Property Based Writes
Data Binding
<TextBlock Content="{Binding Name, Mode=TwoWay}" />
• Binding Interfaces• Properties use INotifyPropertyChanged interface• Collections use INotifyCollectionChanged interface
• Use ObservableCollection<> for Bindable Collections
Data Binding
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XAML HTML
ROUND 7: AUDIO & VIDEO
Requirements for this round
• Easy way of media playback• Support for common formats• DRM
XAML
Audio and video in XAML
• MediaElement Loads or Streams content• Loading:
• Plays Media as Progressively Downloaded• Streamed:
• Downloads Chunk and plays it
• Support for• Audio
• MP3• Wav
• Video• MP4• WMV• OGG video
• Support for• Scrubbing• Markers (subtitles)
<MediaElement x:Name="MainMediaElement" Height="300" Width="640" AreTransportControlsEnabled="True"/>
DRM in XAML
• Silverlight, Windows Phone and Windows 8 support DRM• Player Framework• PlayReady Client• Smooth Streaming SDK
HTML
Audio and video in HTML
• Audio and Video are already available for years
• But it was kind of difficult
Audio and video in HTML
• Now, it is much more simple to add media
Audio and Video in HTML
• But sometimes, codecs can be a pain
Control video and audio with JavaScriptfunction playPauseVideo() { if (video.paused || video.ended) { if (video.ended) { video.currentTime = 0; } video.play(); } else { video.pause(); }}
DRM
ROUND 8: CONTROLS
Requirements
• Rich, native control set• Basic• Advanced
• Extensible control set• Data visualizations
HTML
Controls in HTML
• HTML does not have a rich set of built-in controls• And part of these controls are not supported by all browsers
• Built-in in HTML:• TextBox• PasswordBox• Slider• Progress• Calendar• DatePicker• …
Extra Controls in HTML
• Because of the open web community you can download code to create extra controls
Extra Controls in HTML
• Because of the open web community you can download code to create extra controls
Extra Controls in HTML
• Or you can download or buy extra controls• jQuery UI• Kendo UI
XAML
XAML controls
• Very rich control set• Depending on technology
• Built-in in most XAML technologies• TextBox• PasswordBox• Slider• ProgressBar• Calendar• DatePicker• …
Content controls
• Content controls can contain other content• One child• Nested
• Controls• Button
• CheckBox• RadioButton
• TabControl• ScrollViewer• …
<Button> <Button.Content> <StackPanel> <Image Source="pain.jpg" Width="100" /> <TextBlock TextAlignment="Center" Text="Click Me" /> </StackPanel> </Button.Content></Button>
List Controls
• Bindable to IList or IEnumerable lists• ItemsControl• ListBox• ComboBox (not in W8 and WP8)• TabControl (not in W8 and WP8)• DataGrid (not in W8 and WP8)
• Inherit from ItemsControl• Similar to a repeater
<ItemsControl> <Button Content="Click One" /> <Button Content="Click Two" /></ItemsControl>
Templating of controls
• Endless options when you start to template controls• Allows re-definition of build-in controls• Can redefine the XAML that is used to build control• Look can be changed dramatically by changing XAML• Feel can be changed• Can only add built-in behavior
• E.g. no new methods, properties or events
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XAML HTML
ROUND 9: Uh OH, some OO
Requirements for this round
• Support • Classes• Interfaces• Inheritance• Polymorphism
XAML
OO for XAML/C#
• It’s C#
• XAML does know about OO principles going on behind the scenes• DataTemplateSelectors• Implicit Data Templates• Data binding properties
HTML
OO for HTML/JavaScript
• Although lots of people thing that you cannot do OO stuff in JavaScript, you can• It is not always pretty, but it is possible
JamesBond = (function() { function JamesBond(name, drink) { this.name = name; this.drink = drink; }
return JamesBond;
})();
sean = new JamesBond("Sean Connery", "Martini");
OO for HTML/JavaScript
• Although lots of people thing that you cannot do OO stuff in JavaScript, you can• It is not always pretty, but it is possible
JamesBond = (function() { function JamesBond(name, drink) { this.name = name; this.drink = drink; }
return JamesBond;
})();
sean = new JamesBond("Sean Connery", "Martini");
OO for HTML/JavaScript
• Today: make your live easier with compilers/transpilers/…• CoffeeScript• TypeScript• …
# CoffeeScriptclass JamesBond constructor: (name, drink) -> @name = name @drink = drink
// TypeScriptclass JamesBond{ name: string;drink: string;
constructor(name: string, drink: string) { this.name = name; this.drink = drink; }}
OO for HTML/JavaScript
• ECMAScript 6 will add more OO functionality• Future version of JavaScript
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ROUND 10: TESTING
Requirements for this round
• Support an easy way for unit testing• Unit testing frameworks
HTML
Unit testing for HTML/JavaScript
• Bunch of Testing Frameworks available• QUnit• Mocha• TestSwarm• Jasmine• Tutti• …
• Ideal with a JavaScript build system like grunt or gulp
XAML
Unit testing for XAML
• Silverlight includes support for unit testing directly from Visual Studio• Run in the browser• Not easy to integrate with build process• In general, not a great story!
• Windows 8 support Unit Test Library template in Visual Studio• Based on Visual Studio Testing Framework• Integrates with build process• Other unit testing frameworks are supports
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Final scores
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