So, after my post on waiting for Silverlight for Devices, I spent last night and much of today finding a way to render XAML on a web server. You can see the result in the article Silverlight on Devices, and of course the code is also included.

As expected, there are a lot of the good stuff that you miss out on using this approach (interactivity, animations, etc), but it serves the purpose of moving the design elements of your application to the new user interface platform (XAML, WPF, etc). When the technology is available on the device, the work done can be migrated to the mobile application.

In the article's sample I only render static XAML on the server, as I couldn't get the data binding to work (anyone?), but in most situations this shouldn't be a problem as you do the rendering on the server anyway.