Tales from the Smart Client

Another problem with the gradient and transform mini-languages is that they are redundant. Anything you can express in them can also be done in the long version. You thus have to support both. Worse...much worse if you are trying to do source preservation...

http://myxaml.com/marcclifton/archive/2005/04/25/1938.aspx His comments are right on, a sensible end note to the more confrontationl tone of the thread he refers to. We struggled for a long time over somewhat conflicting visions of XAML: as a declarative...

Had not seen http://www.softwarequotes.com until Tim Bray referred to it. My favorite so far is anonymous: "The software isn't finished until all the last user is dead." How true. The DOS-based CAD products I worked on in the 1980s are still being sold...

Brian states it very well Though I would like to know what he has against dancing hippos...

http://questmaster.net/blogs/dirks_blog/archive/2005/10/11/237.aspx

I am a developer working on an unannounced Avalon-related project. Enough to say I work with the Avalon APIs every day, and have for about 2.5 years. The big news here is that Avalon is going to run on Windows XP, instead of being a Longhorn-only technology...

Sometimes you just need to walk the tree of Visuals in Avalon. It's easy to do, but it is even easier if you have a nice Visitor-pattern implementing tree walker. So: using System; using System.Collections; using System.Diagnostics; using System...

Hmmmm...Kinda hard to tell what the business plans are, but this at least rhymes with what I wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/strategy.mspx

A few months ago I was interviewed by Craig Shoemaker of Pixel8 about my experiences with Expression and WPF. The podcast is up now at: http://pixel8.infragistics.com/shows/gossman

I'm speaking at a lunch session on the 16th about how we built a large client application using WinFX, in particular Windows Presentation Framework (aka Avalon). The application itself will be announced at PDC, but for the purposes of this talk it doesn...

The Avalon compositional UI model encourages you to create Styles and Templates (VisualTree in the May CTP build) that automatically generate visuals. Build a complex Visual Tree and create a bunch of these automatically with data bound ListBoxes, and...

Now it can be told...I am a developer on Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer aka "Sparkle". We finally announced the product at PDC last week and I gave a presentation on how we built the product. I promised the attendees I would blog the content...

Fil Fortes has been running a nice series on Avalon Text. Don't try this in your father's browser: http://fortes.com/work

Pete Blois joined the team just this year, but has tons of experience in the space. His blog is here: http://www.blois.us/blog/

My colleague and friend ChuckJ has started blogging. Chuck has been key in defining the latest XAML spec and is on to new and exciting stuff to be revealed soon: http://www.removingalldoubt.com/ In a former life you may know Chuck as architect of Borland...

I pounded my head against the XAML spec for a couple of years before Chuck came in a "fixed" it. He's the man (Rob Relyea's the man too), and can explain it better than anyone: http://www.removingalldoubt.com/

I turned on "comment approval" a while back and used to get e-mails telling me comments were waiting. Apparently my Spam filter was eating them, so I apologize to Daniel who posted several notes, in particular this one: John, Mano...

Adobe's investor site isn't responding, but Macromedia has the news too .