IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski

A key tenet of Avalon is "lookless" controls: a button should simply be the idea of a button, not the actual button -- very Platonic, really. Now, the platform would not be very useful if all we provided was the idea of a button, so each content control Read More...

Okay, here's the scerario: You've got a bunch of constants in your code in a static class that you want to reference in your XAML files. How do you do it? {x:Static} to the rescue! Simple and very handy, although not particularly intuitive or well documented. Read More...

Very nice code samples and article up on Code Project by Andrej Benedik. His tool is quite handy but more also provides source which allows you to better understand what is happening under the covers. Also with some nice links to other intro articles Read More...

It isn't immediately clear how to play audio in Avlaon. Basically, anything Windows Media Player can play can be played by Avalon. Here's some sample code that could be wired up to an event: MediaTimeline mt = new MediaTimeline ( new Uri ( @"C:\Documents Read More...

I recently put this XAML together -- it shows animating a MediaElement with a ScaleTransform, kind of a cool effect watching the video expand from a tiny circle to full size. <Grid xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005 " xmlns:x=" Read More...