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  • Avalon: More Power, Less Pain

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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
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  • XTech presentation on Avalon/XAML

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    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
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  • More complex applications - Menu

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    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
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  • Design practices that have been Hyper-Extended

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    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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  • Avalon App

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  • Animation Timing

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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
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  • Avalon Color Wheel - Almost done

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    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
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  • 3 Coding Styles for Avalon Applications

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    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
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  • FAQ: Why doesn't Avalon/Indigo March CTP work with VS Beta2

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    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
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  • Custom Panels Hack

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    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,
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  • Data Converter - IValueConverter

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    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;
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  • Avalon layout engine and percentages

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    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
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  • Custom Controls in Avalon Article

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

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    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
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  • Issues/Suggestions for November Avalon CTP's VS2005 Add-ons ('Fidalgo')

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    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
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  • This is the kind of feedback I love: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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    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.
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  • Beta1 VisualStudio perf problems after compiling Avalon projects

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    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
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  • MsBuild and Avalon

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    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
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  • Why isn't xmlns:def="Definition" gone yet...cost of change...

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    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.
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  • Attached Properties, Dependency Object, Dependency Properties

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    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
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