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I enjoyed reading Chris' recap of the presentation that he and Doug Purdy did at the PDC. I forget who grabbed me or called me, but I was able to grab one of the WPF team's demo machines and bring it to Chris. It turns out his machine came to life in

Its out on Microsoft Connect and MSDN Subscriber! Also check out Paul's summary here which lists new fatures like fully functioning version of Windows Media Player (WMP) 11, the Vista version of Media Center, a new Network Center, and other features that

I was in the middle of a beautifull New and Notable, 2nd day in a row no less when Windows Vista Beta 1 froze. No blue screen, just totally froze. No response to Task Manager or Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I guess you are not supposed to play a Windows Media Player

Critical Update (11/18/2005) No reason to install the PDC (Sept 2005) CTP of WinFX anymore. November 2005 CTP is now out ! PDC 2005! Having a great time at PDC2005! Man, am I excited. We had the "Ask the Experts" session last night at the pdc. I sat at

Yet another big gap (August 3rd) [:D]. As you can tell from all the latest posts, I am playing a lot with Vista, WinFX (Indigo AND Avalon) and half a dozen incompatible versions of SQL Server/VSTS as well as diving into ADO.NET 2.0 in my day job. I am

The WinFX Runtime Beta 1 contains the Indigo communications system, as well as the Avalon UI system. This version is fully compatible with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2. This version is also the version that will be found

Stevey asked a FAQ about why Avalon March CTP doesn't work with VS 2005 beta2. I'll explain why here. First of all there are 3 players in this story. .Net Framework 2.0 Avalon Visual Studio Avalon & VS have dependencies on .NET Framework Avalon's

Funny post predicting failure/success of languages based on photos... [via Stéphane Rodriguez ]

Drew Marsh asked a good question recently about why we didn't Uri-ize the Definition xmlns yet... I answered via a comment here . Keep raising issues that you don't see getting fixed... Thanks, Rob PS. Making any breaking change is way too expensive.

Drew Marsh wrote a great intro to those topics today. I'll add a few things...Drew covers the concept of Attached Properties. He should update the post to include examples of non-attached properties as well... We have tried to make the fact that DependencyProperties

Gaston Milano is a self-proclaimed “VS man” - so he wanted a XAML Viewer that worked inside of Visual Studio Whidbey. So he wrote one ! Screen shots look great! (I just left a comment with my problems getting it running on Visual C# Express

I was very pleased to get hold of the November CTP. At last I can play with Avalon without having to go without all the home comforts of my Windows XP installation. The first experiment I tried was creating the popular Gel style buttons with event triggers

I saw Joe Duffy 's post about the Avalon CTP where he said: “And it's compatible with the Express SKUs as well.“ Our team only tested the Avalon CTP with the Express SKUs briefly. We found one major problem (and weren't able to fix it for

First, PDC 2003. Second, WinHec 2004. Now an Avalon Customer Tech Preview! Three interesting links way below that I stole from http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/ . First, a link to the bits for MSDN members. Second, a link to online documentation and

We have a bit of a mess in our processing for attributes. First, a list of the mess, then a brief description of the fix we plan. Attribute values in xaml can map to: 1) a Literal value <Balloon Color=”Red” /> We use the type converter

Among other things, I (and my teammates) have spent much of the last year designing significant improvements to xaml2003 that you saw at the PDC in October 2003. While we have spent a lot of time investing in design, we haven't implemented many of the

I think that adding voice command functionality to Longhorn is an excellent feature that will likely take a back seat to the eye candy of Avalon. In any case, Jason Nadal has an awesome article on the Longhorn Speech API . Sample code included! Talking

Chris positions XAML vs general serialization technologies and approaches. ... XAML was designed to be a compromise markup format, that balanced the toolability and readability aspects of a markup. You can think of HTML as a markup that was squarely designed

Pablo Fernicola (Group Program Manager), David Ornstein (Lead Program Manager), Nathan Dunlap (Rockin' Designer), and I spent time yesterday with Robert Hess and the .Net Show crew. The .Net Show blog posted about the filming (with links to photos) etc

A posting in the channel 9 wiki on getting stated with xaml led me to clarify how xaml pages load in IE and why you sometimes need to compile them. XAML Loading in IE Currently, if you have a xaml page and it doesn't have any code embedded (or in a code