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• Requests for xaml:blog should be forwarded to spaces.msn.com/rrelyea

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Apr 29 2006, 09:43 AM

  Filed under: WinFx, XAML, Avalon

  I moving over to msn spaces...
  

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• WPF General Manager on Channel 9

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Apr 26 2006, 08:50 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  Just finished watching my boss' boss Michael Wallent talk about the forming of the Avalon team, the journey to shipping our v1, and some of the places we know we want to go in the future...Many of you will enjoy some of the history behind the forming
  

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• Check out Fil's Thailand demo app on C9

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Apr 04 2006, 05:42 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  Fil is on Channel9 doing a demo of building an application in WPF . This is based on the demo he did at Mix06 for developers...
  

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• XAML and IL

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Mar 28 2006, 06:42 AM

  Filed under: XAML

  Tim Anderson asked a question on the MSDN forum for WPF. I'm not 100% clear about the relationship between XAML and IL. As far as I can tell, you can compile XAML but it ends up as BAML rather than IL. Equally, my understanding is that anything you can
  

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• XAML Language and XAML Formats

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Mar 27 2006, 12:55 PM

  Filed under: XAML

  There are several ways that people use the term XAML: 1) XAML Language - the core language. This defines how a XamlReader treats elements, attributes and content in an XML file to represent a tree of objects. One mapping is to CLR based objects. We haven
  

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• C++ applications using XAML

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Mar 26 2006, 08:34 PM

  Filed under: XAML

  Nish is starting to use WPF with C++. He posts about using C++ and XamlReader.Load together. There are 3 main ways that an application can use XAML. Nish referred to one of them (code + compiled markup) and shows off another (code + markup using XamlReader
  

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• XAML used for Windows Workflow

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Mar 26 2006, 07:41 PM

  Filed under: XAML

  The WPF and WF teams have worked together to make sure our markup formats are both XAML. See a bit about using XAML for Workflow in this article . Comments on the article should go on this post from K. Scott Allen . Only one (very minor) problem I saw
  

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• Wpf Xaml Namespace Update Tool for Feb2006 CTP

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Feb 14 2006, 07:12 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  When we ship the Feb 2006 CTP, there are a few changes that will need to be done to all xaml files. We've created a tool to help upgrade your WPF XAML files to the Feb CTP. It doesn't do an exhaustive upgrade, but it does handle the following major changes
  

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• XAML Markup Extensions

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Feb 03 2006, 06:57 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  Markup Extensions are documented in the Windows SDK here . In addition to what that document says, you can also use Markup Extensions as elements. Not just in attributes. Somebody asked a question if you could have a tag map to an interface...the answer
  

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• Busy week...transitioning from xaml to tools...talks, etc...

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Jan 12 2006, 06:19 AM

  Filed under: XAML

  I've had 2 presentations this week and 1 ask the experts session with the Microsoft field (Technical Specialists, Developer Evangelists, Consultants, etc...). I really enjoy meeting with customers or other microsoft folks. I used to be part of the Microsoft
  

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• IAddChild says bye-bye

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Dec 22 2005, 06:01 AM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  We hit the deadline for DCR (Design Change Requests) for WPF this month. I rolled up my sleeves a bit to help the development team do some additional changes. We just stopped the XamlReader (formerly Parser) from calling IAddChild. You should start using
  

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• Does WPF focus too much on markup scenarios?

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Nov 20 2005, 12:14 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  Charles Petzold asks if we are deliberately or accidentally making code-based scenarios difficult. He sums it up well with the title of the piece: "XAML Rules (but Code Suffers)". Thanks Charles for raising this issue. I'll make sure the right dev team
  

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• Databinding + Datavisualization Demo with WPF/XAML/VB

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Nov 10 2005, 01:40 PM

  Filed under: WinFx, XAML, Avalon

  Many people say that Databinding is one of the more impactful of the features in WPF. Namita wrote a great set of demos for her PDC talk about Databinding with WPF . As part of a few talks (some VB customers, a Vista + WPF talk , a talk at the Borland
  

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• Do you find intellisense for XAML useful

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Oct 31 2005, 12:56 PM

  Filed under: XAML

  I've written in the past about the Avalon schema that one gets installed with VS 2005 Extensions for WinFX. Now that VS 2005 is final, I'm excited to take advantage of some bug fixes made in the Xml Editor to make the schema more useful. Before I bother
  

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• Great XAML and Cider information

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Oct 28 2005, 01:03 PM

  Filed under: XAML

  In case you haven't seen other pointers to Chuck's blog , please make sure to visit him regularly. Chuck describes his role in the development of XAML in his first of several posts describing XAML. Thanks to Chuck's influence and focus, XAML is evolving
  

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• Script for building the healthcare app demo

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Oct 20 2005, 02:12 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  I've updated my page that points to the healthcare app demo that I did at the PDC. I've added a pointer to a demo script and the starter files. If you find it useful, or have questions/comments/suggestions about it, please comment here.
  

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• PRS305 - Healthcare demo source posted

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Sep 30 2005, 11:26 AM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  Announcing the availability of demo source from my Lap Around WPF ("Avalon") talk at PDC2005...
  

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• New codeproject to convert from 3DS files to 3d XAML.

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Jul 15 2005, 08:00 AM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  I woke up a bit early this morning thanks to my 2 year old...had a chance to catch up in the Avalon newsgroup ... I enjoyed seeing another converter to import content into Avalon. Andrej Benedik wrote a converter from 3DS files to 3d XAML. Great to see
  

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• Matthew Adams ponderings on XAML

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Jun 13 2005, 05:22 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  Interesting post on " Avalon, XAML as a discoverable API " by Matthew Adams. In the discoverable API piece, he ends with: But I don't think XAML quite delivers on that ease-of-use goal as it stands. I'm sure the intention is to build tooling around it
  

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• Beware warnings from the xml editor...avalon2005.xsd/xaml2005.xsd are not perfect way to validate xaml

  Posted by rrelyea to Rob Relyea on Jun 07 2005, 03:03 PM

  Filed under: XAML, Avalon

  This issue keeps coming up... When VS gives you a message like this: The element 'Page' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005' has invalid child element 'Page.CommandBindings' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon
  

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