I’ve been wrangling XAML since 2006, and sometimes the "best practice" just doesn't cut it. In this session, I will open my vault of forbidden techniques to show you the wildest hacks I’ve used in production.

We’ll look at:

- The Ghost View: Creating an invisible, in-memory copy of a WPF view bound to a live ViewModel—just to scrape a screenshot without scrolling.
- The Impossible Binding: Twisting data contexts in ways they were never meant to bend.
- The Framework Hopper: Exploiting behaviors in WPF that might (or might not) work in WinUI or MAUI.

Come for the horror stories, stay for the clever hacks. These are the tricks I don't endorse but definitely want to show you.