Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML, pronounced zammel) is a declarative XML-based language created by Microsoft which is used to initialize structured values and objects.
XAML (pronounced zammel) is an acronym for eXtensible Application Markup Language, is Microsoft's XML-based language for creating a rich GUI, or graphical user interface.
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