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Gervase Markham is attending XTech , an XML focused conference in Amsterdam. He attended my talk on Avalon/XAML and had some comments . In this post, I'll address the first of his three comments. Avalon’s Motivation Gervase said: “The motivation behind

At XTech , I just finished a 45-minute talk on Avalon & XAML. It went well...but 45 minutes is pretty short. I did the following: Some "slides" on Microsoft platforms (win32, com, .net, gdi/gdi+, direct x) Some "slides" on Avalons goals Demo of BlackJack

Preople argue that the menu is the only way you can display selection choices for a complex application. I totally disagree, so I worked up an example. Here is what I envision as one alternative to a complex menu (click image for original size): Remember

Most people want good looking software, but really don't know how to get it. They are confident about one thing, though: do it yourself (DIY). They are not willing to make the investment to have a real designer help them out. That's fine, it's a business

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< PointAnimation Duration = " 0:0:2.5 " From = " 0 " To = " 50 " /> The time format (as in Duration, above) is separated as follows: [days : hours : seconds] --Docs are wrong UPDATE: [hours:minutes:seconds] --I have been confused when I see it like

Ok, I almost have a color wheel implemented...More stuff needs to be added, but the start is there. I am trying to do a throw-back to all the real artists who use pigmented oils--the true way. I like to start with a swatch and add color as needed. The

There are 3 coding styles developers could use to build Avalon applications: 1. Code Only 2. Code + Markup (Runtime use of XamlReader) 3. Code + Markup (Markup compiled)*** *** - Microsoft Development tools will recommend this style. Coding Style 1: Code

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

In the current Avalon build, you cannot databind to a custom panel...Unless you use this hack: In order to implement a custom panel, you have to access the Children property do measurements and arrange. The problem is that in a databound environment,

So, how to convert a databound value at runtime...IValueConverter public class Converter : IValueConverter { public object Convert( object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization. CultureInfo culture) { int i = ( int )value * 2;

Is it just me, or is the Avalon layout engine a *** in my side. What I mean is that they used to have something called percentages (I.e. you could specify a width of 100%). They cut this because there were scenarios where people could abuse the system

Custom Controls in Avalon Article...(Click here) A real lap around longhorn to build a toolbox control.

I’d like everyone to check out Conviat Agave and let me know what you think. I am just putting it in beta, but I know it is stable enough to try. I’d like all the feedback I can get. By the way, it is .NET 1.1 and not Avalon (for the time

When you installed the WinFX SDK with the November CTP, one of the things that is installed is a set of add-ons to Visual Studio 2005 (code named “Whidbey“). Internally, we call these add-ons "Fidalgo". I'll describe what those involve and ask you for

Rod Paddock has begun working with Avalon. He posted a summary of his experiences: Avalon Adventures: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Many people on the Avalon team will read this kind of feedback, enjoy the good things and focus on the bad and the ugly.

I think I wrote details about this recently, but I can't find it (was it in the newsgroups? a comment on somebody's blog? an internal email?) ...from now on, I'll put more things like this in my blog, so I can write it once...and find it. The question

If you peek under the covers in a .csproj or .vbproj of an Avalon project, you'll be looking at the msbuild project file format. The Avalon team has gone through a long journey with our markup compilation, but I'm happy about where we have arrived. First

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