XAML Based Viewer for ASP.NET MVC

Question

Since ASP.NET MVC has a plug-in view engine architecture, and XAML is a descriptive object add-in that, given the right processor / parser, can generate an appropriate user interface ... are there plans / efforts to create a view engine that can turn XAML into HTML ?

Personally, I believe that this would help re-energize the efforts that the WPF / Silverlight people went to provide a means of sharing the look from the model / business logic between designers and developers (via Visual Studio and Expression Blend) ...

It seems like a logical step for me, but without knowing XAML, just like me, I wonder if this is possible or even relevant.

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Answer 1

The MVC template is in no way limited to HTML representations, and although the ASP.NET MVC implementation of this template is intended for HTML viewers, nothing prevents you from turning this interaction into JSON or the like using WPF, Silverlight, or even the WinForms client to access it. Once you get to this point, it looks more like a rich client who accesses a web service, but without WCF (although I’m sure that one could also use it).

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