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I've been testing a program that converts Adobe Illustrator SVG to XAML and I really wanted to give it a work out, so I decided to draw a card. Cards are symbolic and familiar and commonly have ornate designs so I thought it would be a perfect test. My work flow here was to draw the image in Illustrator...

I've seen the big three books (haven't read them yet). I've heard about how great of a seminar it is (more on Sells' post in a second). So I've signed up for the one day seminar in Indianapolis this August. And the great thing is that as a part of the registration, you recieve all three books to take...

This is just a quick tip on something I found not so obvious when working with animations. When you want to animate a property and keep the property set to the post animated value, you need to set the Fill property, which is of the TimeFill Enumeration type, to Hold . The example code below, will draw...

I haven't found any examples showing how to change the ImageSource of an ImageBrush dynamically with code, so I thought I'd post what I have found to work. This works as of version 4051 and is not guaranteed to work in future releases. Notice that the string passed as a parameter is the path to a resource...

How do I change the z-order of a control? I have seen this question asked a few times now about a control's z-order in Longhorn. Here's a compiled answer given on the WinFX newsgroups: “In the current bits the z-index within a canvas is determined by the order of the elements in the tree with a...

Well without much luck on the WinFX newsgroups, I thought I'd ask here: Is it possible to perform a linear taper transformation with an Avalon Matrix Transform? (see http://www-scf.usc.edu/~akotaobi/gptut13.html for taper transformation) In a transformation 3x3 matrix only six of the nine elements can...

Don Box asks "what do people expect to do with XAML besides stitch together documents?". So I thought I'd answer with what I see XAML for right now: This example might seem odd. I see XAML as replacing HTML. Of course not across the web (yet), but locally. As funny as it is, with all the great tools...

If you want to learn how Avalon Composes the Visuals that you see, a great presentation has just recently been made available on the streaming PDC2003 site . The presentation is entitled Avalon Graphics and Media (Part 2): Using Graphics, Animation and Composition in Your Applications (CLI341) and is...