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Avalon: Convergence in the Simulacrum

MIX Contest For Designers

Looking to go to MIX for free (including lodging) and win an XBOX 360? Check out the MIX contest...

Author: karstenj Date: 02/08/2006

Monkeys Jumping: My First Expression Interactive Designer Project

I spent some time creating an application entirely in Expression Interactive Designer (EID)called...

Author: karstenj Date: 02/01/2006

MIX06

Heard about MIX yet? It is a Microsoft conference in Vegas focused on the "next" web -- should be...

Author: karstenj Date: 02/01/2006

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...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/27/2006

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...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/25/2006

Expression Interactive Designer CTP

At long last, Expression Interactive Designer is available to the public at large. My thoughts on...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/24/2006

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...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/20/2006

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...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/18/2006

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...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/18/2006

Karsten Januszewski - Publications

December 2005. Introducing the December 2005 CTP. What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation,...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/09/2006

Analyst Piece on XAML, Avalon, WPF

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

Author: karstenj Date: 01/09/2006

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...

Author: karstenj Date: 01/03/2006

German and Japanese Language Packs Available for Dec CTP

For the first time, WinFX has German and Japanese language pack download pages:...

Author: karstenj Date: 12/20/2005

Dec CTP Posted -- Also What's New Article on MSDN

The draft piece I posted for the Nov CTP is now posted on MSDN. This build of WinFX has very few...

Author: karstenj Date: 12/19/2005

Serialization, ObservableCollection and WPF Avalon Databinding

Most of the data binding samples in the SDK show binding to an object data source where the objects...

Author: karstenj Date: 12/09/2005

WPF 3D LookDirection

If you are doing 3D in Avalon, you must read Ernie's post on the change in the November CTP to...

Author: karstenj Date: 12/08/2005

Creating A Full Trust Avalon Web Browser (.xbap) Application

I recently needed to create a full trust .xbap application on the November CTP. As you may know,...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/29/2005

.xbap Launches From vs But Crashes From File System

Just hit this issue: .xbap (Avalon Web Browser Application) launches fine from VS, but crashes if...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/29/2005

Another Issue With Media In Nov CTP - Media ends early

If you are using media in clock mode (again, see the draft article on the Nov CTP for more on the...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/22/2005

Restarting Media in Nov CTP

Just came across an issue with restarting media in the Nov CTP. First off, assume the code is using...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/22/2005

What's New in the WPF November CTP -- Also Breaking Changes

Okay, I can get back to blogging about Avalon now that the November CTP is out. (Silent periods on...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/18/2005

"Caught up in a system of references" -- More on Post-Structural Programming

I encountered another pertinant passage related to programming in Chapter 1 of The Archeology of...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/16/2005

Post-Structural Programming

I was re-reading The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) by Michel Foucault and came across a fantastic...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/14/2005

HierarchicalDataTemplate -- Recursive Avalon Data Binding

I just discovered the HierarchicalDataTemplate, which is basically a DataTemplate that can...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/02/2005

MCE WPF Application and Article -- Impressive Prototype!

Casey, from brains-N-brawn, has written an article that describes his experience with Avalon and...

Author: karstenj Date: 11/01/2005

Databinding in 3D

In discussing the change to ModelVisual3D, I mentioned two benefits of the change are databinding...

Author: karstenj Date: 10/28/2005

3M eLearning app -- sophisticated example of Avalon hosted in a browser

Okay, this is slightly old news (I was on vacation two weeks ago and on the road this week) but...

Author: karstenj Date: 10/28/2005

WPF (Avalon) PDC Hands-On Labs Posted To MSDN -- Great Training Materials

If you want to learn Avalon, the PDC Hands-On Labs are probably one of the best sources of material...

Author: karstenj Date: 10/24/2005

Nifty Sample of WPF in an IFrame

Viliescu, an active member of the Avalon community, has posted a sample that shows WPF in an IFrame....

Author: karstenj Date: 10/12/2005

Late to the Party -- WPF (Avalon) on MSDN Forums

I was so head's down in PDC crunch mode that I only now discovered the WPF Forum on the MSDN Forums....

Author: karstenj Date: 10/10/2005

Maya to XAML Exporter Plug-In Posted -- Latest WPF 3D Converter Tool

Just posted on Thomas Goddard's blog: A plug-in for Maya to export XAML. I don't have Maya myself,...

Author: karstenj Date: 10/07/2005

Sandbox3D v.0.0.0.4 -- Updated for Sept 05 CTP

I've updated Sandbox3D, an application that allows you to place primitives in a WPF 3D space and...

Author: karstenj Date: 10/06/2005

More on ScreenSpaceLines3D aka "Magic Lines"

I didn't accurately represent ScreenSpaceLines3D when I called the class a kind of "line primitive."...

Author: karstenj Date: 10/05/2005

RHogue Samples Ported to Sept CTP: Keys To The 3D Kingdom

Robert Hogue has ported most of his samples to the Sept CTP. I call these samples the "keys to 3D...

Author: karstenj Date: 09/30/2005

Finding The Right Size, Codec and Compression For Video in WPF (Avalon)

When using video in Avalon, you are free to use any codec supported by Windows Media Player. This is...

Author: karstenj Date: 09/29/2005

Anti-Aliasing in Avalon WPF 3D Applications

Avalon 3D has always suffered from aliasing problems. Consider the following 3D mesh, from the ZAM3D...

Author: karstenj Date: 09/28/2005

The North Face In-Store Explorer Proof-Of-Concept Paper and Video Posted

The PDC is here, which means I can finally talk about things that I couldn't all summer. Much of my...

Author: karstenj Date: 09/15/2005

3D and the I Ching

I've been living in 3D space with Avalon, which can be disorienting to say the least. There is this...

Author: karstenj Date: 08/11/2005

Reverse Engineering Styles in Avalon Using System.Windows.Serialization.Parser

A key tenet of Avalon is "lookless" controls: a button should simply be the idea of a button, not...

Author: karstenj Date: 07/22/2005

Putting Constants in your XAML File? x:Static Is Your Friend.

Okay, here's the scerario: You've got a bunch of constants in your code in a static class that you...

Author: karstenj Date: 07/15/2005

Reader3DS and Viewer3D - Importing and viewing 3D objects into Avalon from 3DS files

Very nice code samples and article up on Code Project by Andrej Benedik. His tool is quite handy but...

Author: karstenj Date: 07/12/2005

Playing Audio in Avalon Programmatically

It isn't immediately clear how to play audio in Avlaon. Basically, anything Windows Media Player can...

Author: karstenj Date: 07/12/2005

ScaleTransform On MediaElement

I recently put this XAML together -- it shows animating a MediaElement with a ScaleTransform, kind...

Author: karstenj Date: 07/11/2005

Text Skeleton - Font Converges With 3D

Speaking of converenge, the Text Skeleton demo in the SDK shows how text can be manipulated in yet...

Author: karstenj Date: 06/30/2005

Passing a preprocessor directive to MSBUILD via the command line instead of #DEFINE in code

I recently wanted to pass a preprocessor directive (as in affecting /define in csc.exe) to MSBUILD...

Author: karstenj Date: 06/28/2005

3D Math Primer

Living in Avalon 2D/3D means doing math -- more math than I've done in a long, long time. My trig is...

Author: karstenj Date: 06/27/2005

Rudy Rucker On Programming: Make Mistakes

Further into Software Engineering and Computer Games by Rudy Rucker: Very often there is no one...

Author: karstenj Date: 06/26/2005

Video On Text In Avalon

True to the notion of convergence, video is just another element in Avalon. So, can one paint video...

Author: karstenj Date: 06/24/2005

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