The title says it all. Sometimes it seems that the Name
and x:Name
attributes are interchangeable.
So, what are the definitive differences
It's not a WPF item but a standard XML one and BtBh has correctly answered it, x refers to the default namespace. In XML when you do not prefix an element/attribute with a namespace it assumes you want the default namespace.
So typing just Name
is nothing more than a short hand for x:Name
. More details on XML namespaces can be found at link text