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January 2006 - Posts

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Interesting piece by Forrester on the relevance of XAML and, by extension, Avalon. Read More...
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...
 
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