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Many people say that Databinding is one of the more impactful of the features in WPF. Namita wrote a great set of demos for her PDC talk about Databinding with WPF . As part of a few talks (some VB customers, a Vista + WPF talk , a talk at the Borland

Filipe created a useful list of links to the online videos of all the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)-centric sessions that our team did at the PDC. I've updated my PDC2005 Event Page with links to my video and to Filipe's list. Please watch the

I've updated my page that points to the healthcare app demo that I did at the PDC. I've added a pointer to a demo script and the starter files. If you find it useful, or have questions/comments/suggestions about it, please comment here.

Its out on Microsoft Connect and MSDN Subscriber! Also check out Paul's summary here which lists new fatures like fully functioning version of Windows Media Player (WMP) 11, the Vista version of Media Center, a new Network Center, and other features that

I've just confirmed that I'll be presenting a talk about Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") at Borland's Developer Conference in November. I'm excited to do this for several reasons: Talking to new audiences with different backgrounds always gives

Where do you draw the line between XAML and C#? When to use what and where? The short of the stick is that many people associate XAML as the same thing as Avalon. In their book, it is the same (XAML is a catchier word than most other substitutes). As

I think you should use the technology that makes sense when you build a solution. If this is ASP, fine. If this is Flash, fine. If this is WinForms, fine. I really don’t care. Each platform was created for a specific purpose, and probably still survives

Announcing the availability of demo source from my Lap Around WPF ("Avalon") talk at PDC2005...

Critical Update (11/18/2005) No reason to install the PDC (Sept 2005) CTP of WinFX anymore. November 2005 CTP is now out ! PDC 2005! Having a great time at PDC2005! Man, am I excited. We had the "Ask the Experts" session last night at the pdc. I sat at

Yet another big gap (August 3rd) [:D]. As you can tell from all the latest posts, I am playing a lot with Vista, WinFX (Indigo AND Avalon) and half a dozen incompatible versions of SQL Server/VSTS as well as diving into ADO.NET 2.0 in my day job. I am

I sat down last night and tonight with the intention of building out a cool calendaring app with functionality to share events and invites with friends (maybe I'll get to that tomorrow night). I didn't finish because I was sidetracked on some bugs, but

I use feedster.com to see what people are saying about Avalon or XAML . I was interested in reading this first take on Avalon from slave to the code. He compares Avalon to Flash. He discusses some of our stregths..and the fear that people will abuse some

I woke up a bit early this morning thanks to my 2 year old...had a chance to catch up in the Avalon newsgroup ... I enjoyed seeing another converter to import content into Avalon. Andrej Benedik wrote a converter from 3DS files to 3d XAML. Great to see

So, I come to realizations every now and then...Here is one pertaining XAML. I have always know that XAML is a good visualization of source code because it allows you to inherently view the control hierarchy without having to look at another source. So

I know the question has been dodged, and I myself didn't have a firm grasp--but I am back to report on "the way" of creating a custom control. First of all, be aware that a custom control should be created only as a last option. For the sake of all the

Interesting post on " Avalon, XAML as a discoverable API " by Matthew Adams. In the discoverable API piece, he ends with: But I don't think XAML quite delivers on that ease-of-use goal as it stands. I'm sure the intention is to build tooling around it

I have had some trouble getting this working, and I am not sure why it is that cool (probably the same reason for my fascination with the VisualBrush), but here it is: < StackPanel Width = " 100 " Name = " stack4 " > < Button Name = " button4

This issue keeps coming up... When VS gives you a message like this: The element 'Page' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon/2005' has invalid child element 'Page.CommandBindings' in namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/avalon

TV is neat because many things are hand coded with explicit pixel positions and absolutes that are composited together to get an intended effect that looks incredible and visually enjoyable. I once thought Avalon was also going to be neat because we could

I had a Path (System.Windows.Shapes.Path) that I wanted to show, but it wasn't exactly clear as to how I was going to size it because there aren't any dimension properties to modify. So, simple enough, I plopped it in-between some Viewbox tags, and I