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Testers are customer advocates - and are best when they... know what real customers want to do with the technology/product that they are testing. It takes a number of different disciplines to build software. At Microsoft, 4 different categories make up

I enjoy reading John Dowdell . The latest thing I learned there about was Web Page Design for Designers . As a non-designer, I had never known about Joe Gillespie's work with wpdfd.com - looks like he built a great destination. Joe's final editorial before

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

Since the WinFX CTP hit the street, I can already see that Longhorn is out of the question. What do I mean? Well, with such a large install base on WinXP and no real advantages to Longhorn, people may as well have forgot about it. And who says Microsoft

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

Many visionaries predict that the next Windows will be built through the web browser. They believe that Google will host these largely distributed applications, and Windows will come crashing down. This is only slightly after the fact that they had a

Over the weekend I decided to play around with Macromedia Flex . This stuff is really cool…really! I swear if they had a full code backing – like . NET , and all of the UI was handled by their goop, they would have a killer app. I was doing

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

Speaking of features that can wait…Take a look at the 3D stack. I am positive that things have improved since WinHEC. But, I was recently working with 3D samples on an extremely good machine and the performance was ridiculous. I mean terrible as

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

Lately I have been testing the Avalon knock-offs, VG.Net and Xamlon, to name the ones I am aware of. I would have to say that I am pretty impressed by what both companies have done. They are both in release about a year after the initial PDC that started

I know this is sort of old, but I was digging through the Avalon stack today and I didn’t think this statement by Miguel de Icaza was correct . For anyone who didn’t read it, here is a summarization: The Avalon API is too complex because it

Keith Hill asked a question in nntp://microsoft.public.windows.development.winfx.avalon I've seen this in several XAML examples on the root XML element and I've seen plenty of examples without this attribute. When is it needed and is the value "root"

Amit Bahree asks : I was curious as to what happeend to the class SimpleText in the WinHEC build? If I have any code that ran on the earlier build - now does now and I get an exception on SimpleText. We removed SimpleText from the builds a short while

Adam Kinney has posted his xaml app that he entered into a markup-bakeoff that Gerald Bauer organized. Nice job Adam. Follow Adam's link to all the entries - they are very interesting to read through. Visual Appearance I found it interesting that the

Karsten's Avalon Gotcha Quiz (and answer ) points to a common source of confusion for DockPanel users: When Avalon encounters the "Fill" command, it does just that -- filling the entirety of the given element no matter what follows that element

Nigel McFarlane wrote a DevX piece “ A Standards Based Look at XAML's Features ”. I'd like to make a few informational points for readers of that article and then have a place where people can add comments/questions. The whole topic may warrant

I was happy to read Chris Sells' MSDN article "Another Step Down the Longhorn Road" . Chris is building solitaire using Avalon. (This article was step 2 of 3). This article goes into 2 of the 5 element families: Panels and Controls. It also covers the