This may be just a question due to much time spent debugging an XAML problem this morning but I just wondering if anyone else keeps trying to use XAML over code and finding it to be very brittle, hard to debug and painful to refactoring. I'm finding bugs at runtime instead of at compile. Note i'm using visual studio so maybe Xamarin studio would be be better?
Following the classes and Charles Petzold's book I've tried to use xaml however when I look at the full app examples like Xamarin CRM App (note: amazing example everyone should study!) they too seem to have thrown in the towel and gone entirely code instead of xaml. Or is this a case that code base is older and not been updated to xaml yet?