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As ASP.NET MVC has a pluggable view engine architecture, and XAML is an object descriptive mark-up that, given the right processor/ parser, can generate an appropriate UI...are there plans/ efforts to create a view engine that can turn XAML into HTML?

Personally, I think this would help to re-enforce the efforts the WPF/ Silverlight people have gone to in providing a means of seperating the view from the model/ business logic between designers and developers (via Visual Studio and Expression Blend)...

Seems like a logical step to me, but not knowing XAML as well as I should, I'm wondering if feasable, or even relevant.

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The MVC pattern is in no way limited to HTML representations and although the ASP.NET MVC implementation of that pattern is designed for HTML view engines there's nothing to stop you turning that interfacing into JSON or similar and using a WPF, Silverlight or even WinForms client to access it. Once you get to that point it's more like a rich client accessing a web service but without WCF (although I'm sure that also could be used).

As for actually having a view engine that outputs XAML and then converts to HTML, that is, I believe, virtually impossible. XAML describes capabilities that HTML simply does not have and although I'm sure you could replicate much of that through the use of JQuery and similar libraries I'd have to ask why? Much easier to think in HTML and JQuery then generate a UI that makes the best use of that appropriate technology rather than trying to shoehorn a rich client technology into HTML.

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    Should you guys ever hear about a XAML to HTML engine please notify, that would be great having a Silverlight app rendered as HTML plugin-free client code, ain't it? – Shimmy Weitzhandler Dec 12 '12 at 04:18
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    @Shimmy : You did say "ever"... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/aa972129(v=vs.90).aspx is a sample implementation of an XAML -> HTML -> XAML converter project done in C# .NET 3.0/3.5 – psaxton Sep 17 '13 at 14:24