In honor of the fact that I’ve been crafting slides for my PDC talk all day, I added my geeky piece of PDC flair over there on the right. I must admit, I rather enjoy it.
Here’s the abstract for my talk:
Windows Presentation Foundation (”Avalon”): Using Application Services
Learn how to use Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly […]
Archive for July, 2005
Well, the news is out. Interesting choice of name.
Look for Beta 1 on August 3. There are a few of us here working hard to get it in your hands.
Update 07/27/05 11:58 am: It’s out! To address Jason’s question, this beta is for MSDN Subscribers.
Henry Hahn is online! (Okay, he’s actually been online for almost 2 months, but I only found out today) Henry is a great resource for Avalon layout questions, and he’s already hinted that he has a whole slew of samples hanging around that he’s aching to share with the community.
Ladies and gentlement: today Mike Swanson announced the release of his Adobe Illustrator –> XAML converter. Get it while it’s hot! (Note that this is compatible with the Beta 1 RC build of Avalon).
There is also a Channel 9 video of Mike talking about the tool, and a great Eye Candy page that shows off […]
I’m in Los Angeles, just visiting my mom for the evening and getting ready to take off for the annual family rafting trip with my father bright and early tomorrow morning. Don’t expect too much of a recap of the trip here though, because the #1 rule on our annual trip is “Whatever happens on […]
One of the whimsical things that members of the Avalon Application Model team like to say is that “Avalon doesn’t have an application model.” If that is truly the case, have we utterly failed at our jobs? Should we just go home now? Or perhaps take a vacation until Avalon ships?
Well, not quite. Unfortunately that […]
Ashish, one of my fellow Avalon AppModel PMs, has posted a good summary of Avalon’s deployment options. If you want to know all about distributing powerful client applications using slick web-like deployment, or creating rich browser applications that use the power of the platform, Ashish is your man.
