Sorry for the lack of updates, but we've been pretty busy. On what, you may ask? Our PM, David Teitlebaum, just did a video on Channel 9 showing off the new features. He starts by covering interactive 2D on 3D and improved layered window support, both of which were in 3.5, and he finishes with the customizable...

Yesterday, .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 went live on MSDN. You can see what's new in both here and download them here . Since this is a graphics blog, here are the graphics-specific changes of note in 3.5: New Graphics Features UIElement3D Interactive 2D on 3D: Viewport2DVisual3D...

Subclassing from UIElement3D to create your own elements that respond to input, focus and eventing is simple to do in 3.5. In this example we'll create a Sphere class which derives from UIElement3D and will show off some new features in the process. Deriving from UIElement3D The first step is to...

With the release of WPF 3.5 beta 2 (download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D2F74873-C796-4E60-91C8-F0EF809B09EE&displaylang=en ), we’ve added some exciting new features to WPF 3D. At a very high level these can be grouped in to two main additions: UIElement3D and...