Examples
This chapter shows some practical examples of using UIML to create
a user interface for your .Net application. The first example is the calculator
example in section . The second example shows
how a user interface for keeping track of different blog feeds can be created
with UIML.
Example 1: The Calculator
Example 2: The Feed Aggregator
Prerequisites
To give the reader an idea what a feed aggregate exactly does, here are some existing ones:
Blam! and Straw are
two execellent examples. This example tries to show it is easy to create a user interface that is loosely coupled
with the application logic but still provides equal functionality as the aformentioned examples.
To handle the RSSRich Site Summary
parsing an external library will be used.
the UIML document
Structure
The user interface for our Feed Aggregator is a simpliefied version of the user interface one can find
for Blam! and Straw
for illustration reasons.
Structure for the Feed Aggregator
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