Category: Avalon

I’ll be participating in the following panel at the PDC next week:

PNL06 – What’s Next for Microsoft’s Web Platform
September 16, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
152/153 (Hall F)
Eric Deily, Eric Feagler, Lauren Lavoie, Mike Volodarsky, Nikhil Kothari, Omar Khan, Shanku Niyogi

Will emerging technologies such as Atlas and IIS7 create an environment for new types of web applications, if so what challenges and opportunities will developers face? How is ASP.NET evolving? What role will Avalon Express play in this space? Join us for a conversation with a panel of Microsoft experts on what promises to be a lively discussion on the state of web application development.

This should be an exciting panel. We plan to make it worth getting up early for. :)

If you have any questions that you’d like to hear us answer during this panel, please either leave a comment or drop me a line.

Today was the 10-year anniversary of Windows 95. I wouldn’t have known, if not for the out of office message from someone on my team this afternoon, who was attending a 10-year anniversary celebration. His OOF message also had a link to a great little tidbit from Raymond Chen describing his experience at the launch party 10 years ago.

And one of the comments on Raymond’s blog post was pretty amazing too:

As I have for the last 5 or 6 years, I’m having a “birthday party” for Windows95 today. For real. I know that sounds totally nuts (and it probably is to some degree), but Windows95 took us all out of the dark ages and into the new frontier. Me and my co-coders will get some cake and soda and play “Start Me Up” from a Win95 CD… Nerds at their worst… I mean best.

I hope that the release of Vista meets with some excitement as well. :)

Robert Ingebretsen has joined the ranks of the Avalon team bloggers! Robby is a Program Manager on the Component Model team, and his specialties include resources, styling, templates, and other aspects related to enabling designers and developers to work together to create visually compelling applications (and he also knows a good deal about controls). He has some interesting content up there already, and I look forward to seeing lots more from him in the future. Stop by and say hello!

One month (plus one day) left until PDC 2005, and counting!

We’re all in the full swing of PDC prep mode over here in Avalon WPF land, and it’s fun. September will be an exciting time.

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 codename “Avalon”) application-level services for data management, system interaction, hosting, and UI to create great client applications. See how to create both standalone client applications and rich browser applications that can take advantage of these services. Gain guidance for using application-level services, such as when your application should be hosted in the browser or a standalone window, whether or not to write a navigation-based application, and how to manage application data and settings for various scenarios.

(Yes, as you might have noticed, “Avalon” has now been re-christened “Windows Presentation Foundation”. I guess we knew the sexy codename wouldn’t last forever.)

If you’re going to be joining us at the LA Convention Center in September, and you’re interested in how Avalon (er, I mean Windows Presentation Foundation) is making application development more fun, I hope you’ll come check it out.