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title: "What is MainPage.xaml?"  
description: "What is MainPage.xaml?"  
author: "AVADHESH PATEL"  
published: 2012-11-17  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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category: "wpf"  
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# What is MainPage.xaml?

When you create a Silverlight project **using Visual Studio**, it creates a default XAML file called "MainPage.xaml". This is just a dummy start page created by Visual Studio, and it does not contain any visible UI elements. The default contents of the MainPage.xaml file looks like this:\
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<UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication1.MainPage"\
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" \
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" \
Width="400" Height="300">\
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">\
</Grid>\
</UserControl>

## Answers

### Answer by AVADHESH PATEL

When you create a Silverlight project **using Visual Studio**, it creates a default XAML file called "MainPage.xaml". This is just a dummy start page created by Visual Studio, and it does not contain any visible UI elements. The default contents of the MainPage.xaml file looks like this:\
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<UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication1.MainPage"\
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" \
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" \
Width="400" Height="300">\
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">\
</Grid>\
</UserControl>


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