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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 of the Avalon team. He talks about some of our early...

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...

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: Change all xmlns uris of http://schemas.microsoft...

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 is no. But you can have a tag map to a markup extension...

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 the ContentPropertyAttribute in place of IAddChild...

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 sees the feedback. Please let us know other scenarios...

Many people say that Databinding is one of the more impactful of the features in WPF. Namita wrote a great set of demos for her PDC talk about Databinding with WPF . As part of a few talks (some VB customers, a Vista + WPF talk , a talk at the Borland Developer Conference ), I used that demo. I've finally...

I've updated my page that points to the healthcare app demo that I did at the PDC. I've added a pointer to a demo script and the starter files. If you find it useful, or have questions/comments/suggestions about it, please comment here.

Our team had a fantastic PDC. I was privileged to be the presenter for the Lap Around WPF. It was my biggest presentation ever. ~2000 developers! My goal was to communicate the basics of WPF/XAML and to give brief introductions to many of the topics that we had a drilldown presentation later in the PDC...