Typically, Media Centre applications are written in MCML (Can you guess - Media Centre Markup Language...) but it's good to know that you can in fact use WPF XBAP applications inside Media Centre too. The Media Centre SDK contains some instuctions...

It's been a couple of months since I had a look at this, but I said I'd make some comment on some concept work with WF and CCS so here it is... You can see a video at the Microsoft site which was used as part of the launch for CCS (if you look really...

I'm so pleased that this book is finally available. There are so few WPF resources currently so it's great that Charles gives the subject his usual treatment. Haven't read the whole thing yet of course, but it is packed with code and explanation...

The latest version of EID can also be downloaded now too. It's here: Expression Interactive Designer September 2006 CTP

I'm a bit slow on the announcement, but that's because I've been updating my machine to Vista RC1. In the meantime, they've released the beta of XNA Express. Very cool. Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express (Beta)