Tales from the Smart Client

I've been reading Nikhil's series on data bound controls in ASP.NET. It is an interesting compare and contrast exercise with what Avalon provides, as well as just plain interesting: Four parts so far...first is here: http://www.nikhilk.net/DataSourceControlBasics...

My colleague Amir Khella is experimenting with the Avalon Grid control, using it to provide FishEye effects quite unlike anything you'd expect from a mere layout container: http://www.elementsofpassion.com/archives/2005/07/playing_around http:/...

I'd forgotten this until someone pointed it out to me, but many moons and jobs ago, I was already thinking about representing UI objects in XML: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/199710/msg00100.html I'm sure some of this must have been bouncing...