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WPF has some great Data Visualization features. I'm working with Kevin Moore , other WPF teammates and people around the company to think about how we might be able to do even more with data. We think we are on to something very nice... Hope to have more

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

Just a quick note to book authors, users, and anybody else who cares. I'm communicating early because...well, why wait? Microsoft Tools and MyApp.xaml The VS "Orcas" team and Expression Interactive Designer team plan to change a few things about the default

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...

David Betz posts a nice video demo of some basic Databinding in XAML. Few notes that I took about the demo: 1) The color capture of the video didn't make the gradient look very good. Very banded. Yes, it wasn't going to look much prettier...but at least

Tim Sneath posts a good set of resources to start your journey with WPF. He references my PDC 2005 Lap around WPF talk. I wonder how that talk would change with more mature tools now? I'm beginning to post information for each of my talks (including my

Jelle Druyts wrote a nice article about WPF Commands that recently was posted here . Give him any feedback here . Would be interested in Nick Kramer 's feedback on the article...he is the PM for WPF commanding... Update: Mike Taulty comments here . (adding

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

A post on the Avalon Forum from Jaffi raised a question WPF is not straight forward. Simple actions, like setting rectangles X position, requires using myRectange.SetValue(Canvas.LeftProperty, Value). I'm sure there is a performance penalty for such use

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

I just posted a set of 5 wpf technology demos that work on the January 2006 CTP showing: http://robrelyea.com/demos/wpfDemoShell Contains working versions of the following demos: Data Visualization (Auction items) Flow Document Layout (basic panels, layout

[ Topic from Main Blog ] This blog has been going since March 2002 when it was only me, Peter Drayton and Simon Fell as .NET bloggers. Its come a long way since then. I know I have a lot of loyal readers and a lot of people that recomend me on their blogs

Now that I got the mess working , I must say that the Orcas Designer from Avalon totally utterly rocks!!

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

Chris and Ian wrote a piece for MSDN: Top Ten UI Development Breakthroughs In Windows Presentation Foundation Good reading. Thoughts?

Normally I am really excited about new releases of WinFX/Indigo but our team members just looked up after reading Tom Archer's post and said “***, we have to upgrade again.” As Tom says, “Go to my Windows Vista Get the Beta Web page to see a description

Glad to find a nice link to a great demo of IronPython from Jim Hugunin. In version 1 of WPF, we chose to not enable scripting scenarios, but instead require you to compile any code. At least that is what we thought...the demo shows: "interactive exploration

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

Doing my feedster search for WPF, I found a post where Aaron was excited about embedding a combo box inside a textbox. He has a picture of it in action. One key developer benefit of WPF is...