Adam Nathan's Old Blog

Looking at the card games that ship with Windows XP, I think one of the most obvious opportunities for improvement is the look & feel of the playing cards. These games use a shared library known as cards.dll to draw cards that look like... um... this...

Last year, Chris Sells wrote a series of articles in which he set out to rewrite Solitaire using Avalon. The lack of scaling graphics in the Win32 version (and lack of access to its source code, I suppose) forced him down the road of rewriting the app...

Could wikis be the solution to all the world's problems? Probably not, but I've created another one anyway. It's called XAMLshare . I'm starting to see folks share XAML samples on their blogs (myself included), and thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to...

I'm happy to say that the Beta 1 RC of Avalon & Indigo is now available here . This version is compatible with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2! As promised, I've updated my XAML playing cards sample here , and I've updated the two pages on XAMLshare...

In my previous XAML-related post , Mike asked about my conversion from SVG to XAML. I know of two such programs that help with this (and I see Will also listed them in a comment): XAMLConverter from Xamlon, which is currently in sync with the March...

I didn't think I was going this year, but plans have changed! You should able to find me at the cabanas or the Developer Tools booths in the Microsoft Pavilion. See you in Orlando!

Tim posted a great document that describes the major additions to Avalon you'll see in the Beta 1 RC bits. I like the promise of being able to recompile your source code on "final Beta 1" with no changes! :) Here's a quick summary of what's new: ...

In a recent meeting, I got the opportunity to meet Ward Cunningham , David Ornstein , and Korby Parnell . Naturally, afterwards I had wikis on the brain. They (not intentionally) made me feel guilty about pinvoke.net being on such an old version of FlexWiki...