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January 2006 - Posts

Andrew Whiddett on Asynchronous Databinding, the Dispatcher class and using DispatcherPriority.Background

Andrew Whiddett is a developer at REZN8 , an amazing interactive design firm. REZN8 built the Netflix demo that was shown at PDC05. Andrew doesn't have a blog and asked me to be a proxy for a code sample he wrote, which I was more than obliged to do! Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 12:13 PM by karstenj | 8 Comments

Updated Hands-On Labs on MSDN

If you are looking to get your hands dirty with WPF, check out the Hands-On Labs just posted on MSDN. Great way to start learning the platform. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:27 PM by karstenj | 0 Comments

Expression Interactive Designer CTP

At long last, Expression Interactive Designer is available to the public at large. My thoughts on this app: 1. Expression Interactive Designer is a showcase Avalon app. This is, hands down, the most complex WinFX WPF Avalon application that has been built Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:32 AM by karstenj | 0 Comments

Staying Sane in WPF 3D: Scale, Rotate, then Translate or Your Head May Explode

I was recently helping a friend with an Avalon 3D app and he was very confused as to why his models seemed to vanish with certain transforms. He had committed a common newbie mistake: his Transform3DGroup did not follow the recommended ordering: scale, Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:17 PM by karstenj | 2 Comments

On Avalon and Go Live (or lack thereof)

Arik Cohen, who is the release manager for Avalon, has a blog post on why WPF doesn't have a Go Live license w/ the January CTP. For those not familiar with Go Live licenses, they are supplemental license terms for pre-release technologies. The terms Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:43 AM by karstenj | 0 Comments

January CTP Released -- Nothing New In Avalon

You may have seen that a new CTP of WinFX has been released -- check out Tim's post for all the links. However, if you are an WPF enthusiast, be aware that there is no change in the WPF binaries . In fact, the Dec CTP and Jan CTP are binary compatible. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:40 AM by karstenj | 5 Comments

Analyst Piece on XAML, Avalon, WPF

Interesting piece by Forrester on the relevance of XAML and, by extension, Avalon. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 3:06 PM by karstenj | 2 Comments

Configuring IIS To Support WPF .XBAP Express Applications With The Dec CTP

I recently needed the script to set the MIME types and forgot where it was; figured I'd blog it in case others needed it. However, this script isn't quite right so I fixed it below. There is a typo, which causes the script to fail. You need to add a comma Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:36 PM by karstenj | 3 Comments
 
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