Patent ID: 8438538
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing a binding for a presentation layer of an application framework using a compact binding syntax in which all binding components are specified in a Window Presentation Foundation (WPF) extensible application Markup language (SAML) simple binding string; parsing the syntax of the WPF XAML simple binding string to derive a binding class, wherein the simple binding string includes a typecast that indicates a type of a binding result to be obtained; and evaluating the binding class using a custom type conversion routine that ensures the type of the binding result is of a type understood by the target WPF dependency property, wherein the custom type conversion routine converts, during application runtime, the binding result to a desired type as identified by properties of the target WPF dependency property using a type converter provided with a windows .NET framework.