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Avalon: Convergence in the Simulacrum

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2007 32

  1. IRhetoric Has Moved to https://rhizohm.net/irhetoric
  2. Announcing Flotzam: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Blog Mash Up
  3. Microsoft Facebook Toolkit Is Open Sourced and Moves to Codeplex
  4. UPDATED WPF PERFORMANCE PROFILING TOOLS POSTED
  5. UDDI RESOURCES MIGRATED
  6. FLITTERBOOK: INTEGRATING WITH THE FACEBOOK PLATFORM
  7. THREE NEW EXPRESSION BLEND HANDS-ON LABS
  8. TWITTERPATED: ON TWITTER AND CONFERENCES
  9. DIGGING INTO LUTZ ROEDER'S MONOTONE
  10. WPF Momentum Video Posted
  11. TRANSITION AND REVEAL: NEW CUSTOM CONTROLS FOR WPF, UPDATED AVALON FEATURE FEST
  12. FLITTER: SOURCE POSTED
  13. THE DEBUT OF FLITTRBOOK
  14. New Lab Posted: Creating 3D Content with Windows Presentation Foundation
  15. North Face Case Study Published
  16. EXPRESSION BLEND RELEASE CANDIDATE 1: SIX NEW SAMPLES!
  17. SXSW INTERACTIVE REPORT #3: ON DESIGN (THE PROCESS NOT THE PRODUCT)
  18. Sxsw INTERACTIVE REPORT #1
  19. Inspired By Flash Math Creativity #3: WPF Flag
  20. Expression Blend Training: New Lab Posted, Training Wiki Updated
  21. 3D Cloth Source Code Posted: Technique for WPF 3D Morph Mesh
  22. Inspired By Flash Math Creativity #2: WPF Planets
  23. Inspired By Flash Math Creativity: WPF Flowers
  24. WPF Application Portfolio Wiki Updated -- More WPF Apps!
  25. Announcing Expression Blend Beta 2 and Expression Design Beta 1
  26. Databinding In Expression Blend: Forget the Data and Do the Bind
  27. Doninoken: WPF XBAP Piece by Bascule
  28. Consumer Electronics Show
  29. The Definitive Post on XBAP Trust Levels
  30. Yahoo Messenger for Vista Debuts at CES
  31. Gradient Animation Obsession Redux
  32. The North Face In-Store Explorer

2006 74

  1. Animation Handoff Bug and Workaround for current WPF/E CTP
  2. Gradient Obsession: A Tool For Tweaking Gradient Animations
  3. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Coding Practices By IDesign
  4. Woodgrove Finance Application Source Code Posted
  5. Expression Blend, WPF/E and the Torus Trip
  6. Required Reading: Optimizing WPF Application Performance
  7. Plumbing the SDK Samples and Unearthing More About Doing Per Frame Animation
  8. Mike Swanson Is The Man: Flash to WPF Converter Posted
  9. WPF SDK Release Notes: Clean Your Clocks
  10. .NET 3.0 Shipped and MIX07 Announced: What Better Way To Celebrate Than With A Cool WPF App From ReMIX Japan?
  11. Healthcare Prototype Source Code Posted
  12. Beware Of Intellisense: Some Methods are Hidden like Dispatcher.CheckAccess and Dispatcher.VerifyAccess
  13. Inter Process Communication Between Applications and Vista Gadgets Using WCF (Part 2)
  14. Inter Process Communication Between Applications and Vista Gadgets Using WCF (Part 1)
  15. WPF 3D Performance Troubleshooting
  16. WPF Vista Gadgets - Part 2: Using ActiveX
  17. Yahoo .NET Developer Center -- With XAML Code Sample!
  18. WPF Vista Gadgets - Part 1: Using XBAP and IFRAME
  19. Limitations of Multiple AppDomains in WPF and The Challenges of Creating a Plug-in Architecture
  20. WPF Feature Montage Ported to RC1
  21. Some Additional Pointers and Thoughts On RC1
  22. On Petzold's Applications = Code + Markup
  23. InvokeStress as a Tool for Doing QA and Stress With WPF
  24. Clearing .xbap Cache on a machine without the SDK
  25. Cool Flickr MCE XBAP: Mobilewares Big Screen Photos
  26. Ever get this? "System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: Unexpected end of element when parsing an object. BAML stream might be corrupted."
  27. Runtime XAML Debugging in WPF
  28. New Screencast Showing Workflow Between Graphic Designer and Interactive Designer
  29. Highly Recommended Tutorial for Learning Expression Interactive Designer
  30. Workflow Between Expression Interactive Designer and VS
  31. 3D Integration in Windows Presentation Foundation: Daniel Lehenbauer Does It Again
  32. MSDN Wiki
  33. Thoughts On Video on 3D in WPF
  34. .XBAP Development Made Easy (Or At Least Easier)
  35. One Stop Shopping For Resources/Links: next.design.now
  36. Animation Abstraction: Check Out Brandon Furtwangler's Animation Behaviors
  37. WPF Community Site: Now Posting All My Samples in the Gallery
  38. Updated MSDN Article on Dynamic Animations in WPF
  39. ScreenspaceLines3D
  40. Escaping XPath syntax in WPF Databinding
  41. XAML Syntax Tightening: Order Matters
  42. The ZIndex Property -- At Last!
  43. Beta 2
  44. The WPF Blog: A Flash Developer's Blog on Learning WPF
  45. Catching XAML Exceptions
  46. MIX Sessions Posted -- More on the My Yahoo Prototype
  47. Andrew Whiddett on Visual Tree Helpers
  48. Phenomenological Layout in WPF: More on Layout Animations
  49. AMG-Mercedes Prototype: Handling Layout Animations and the Beauty of the Viewbox
  50. We Are Hiring On Our Team
  51. More Thoughts on the Curve: How To Hit It and What Comes Next
  52. Hitting the Curve: On WPF and Productivity
  53. Back From MIX and Fired Up
  54. BBC Demo at MIX in Bill Gates Keynote - All Avalon All The Time
  55. Channel 9 Interview
  56. The North Face In-Store Explorer White Paper and Sample Updated for February CTP
  57. Looping Video in the February CTP
  58. February CTP of WinFX Published -- Breaking Changes
  59. ClickOnce and XML files not being published by Visual Studio
  60. Essential .xbap/clickonce development tool for clearing application cache
  61. Expression Interactive Designer: Three Discoveries
  62. Sandbox3D-0.0.0.7 -- Updated for Jan CTP (Finally!)
  63. MIX Contest For Designers
  64. Monkeys Jumping: My First Expression Interactive Designer Project
  65. Mix06
  66. Andrew Whiddett on Asynchronous Databinding, the Dispatcher class and using DispatcherPriority.Background
  67. Updated Hands-On Labs on MSDN
  68. Expression Interactive Designer CTP
  69. Staying Sane in WPF 3D: Scale, Rotate, then Translate or Your Head May Explode
  70. On Avalon and Go Live (or lack thereof)
  71. January CTP Released -- Nothing New In Avalon
  72. Karsten Januszewski - Publications
  73. Analyst Piece on XAML, Avalon, WPF
  74. Configuring IIS To Support WPF .XBAP Express Applications With The Dec CTP

2005 65

  1. German and Japanese Language Packs Available for Dec CTP
  2. Dec CTP Posted -- Also What's New Article on MSDN
  3. Serialization, ObservableCollection and WPF Avalon Databinding
  4. WPF 3D LookDirection
  5. Creating A Full Trust Avalon Web Browser (.xbap) Application
  6. .xbap Launches From vs But Crashes From File System
  7. Another Issue With Media In Nov CTP - Media ends early
  8. Restarting Media in Nov CTP
  9. What's New in the WPF November CTP -- Also Breaking Changes
  10. "Caught up in a system of references" -- More on Post-Structural Programming
  11. Post-Structural Programming
  12. HierarchicalDataTemplate -- Recursive Avalon Data Binding
  13. MCE WPF Application and Article -- Impressive Prototype!
  14. Databinding in 3D
  15. 3M eLearning app -- sophisticated example of Avalon hosted in a browser
  16. WPF (Avalon) PDC Hands-On Labs Posted To MSDN -- Great Training Materials
  17. Nifty Sample of WPF in an IFrame
  18. Late to the Party -- WPF (Avalon) on MSDN Forums
  19. Maya to XAML Exporter Plug-In Posted -- Latest WPF 3D Converter Tool
  20. Sandbox3D v.0.0.0.4 -- Updated for Sept 05 CTP
  21. More on ScreenSpaceLines3D aka "Magic Lines"
  22. RHogue Samples Ported to Sept CTP: Keys To The 3D Kingdom
  23. Finding The Right Size, Codec and Compression For Video in WPF (Avalon)
  24. Anti-Aliasing in Avalon WPF 3D Applications
  25. The North Face In-Store Explorer Proof-Of-Concept Paper and Video Posted
  26. 3D and the I Ching
  27. Reverse Engineering Styles in Avalon Using System.Windows.Serialization.Parser
  28. Putting Constants in your XAML File? x:Static Is Your Friend.
  29. Reader3DS and Viewer3D - Importing and viewing 3D objects into Avalon from 3DS files
  30. Playing Audio in Avalon Programmatically
  31. ScaleTransform On MediaElement
  32. Text Skeleton - Font Converges With 3D
  33. Passing a preprocessor directive to MSBUILD via the command line instead of #DEFINE in code
  34. 3D Math Primer
  35. Rudy Rucker On Programming: Make Mistakes
  36. Video On Text In Avalon
  37. Outlined Text -- Approximating Stroke on Text in Avalon
  38. Avalon Blog OPML File
  39. Program Computer Games? No, Programming IS The Game
  40. Gnarly SDK Sample: Animation Composition
  41. Rotation3D, RotateTransform3D, Rotation3DAnimation, Center, Angle, Axis
  42. WinForms Screen Saver Starter Kit in Whidbey (.NET 2.0)
  43. Sandbox3D v.0.0.0.3 -- Trackball support
  44. Magnifying Glass Sample by Ian Griffiths
  45. More RHogue Samples: StockGraph3D and 3D Video
  46. Avalon Desktop Clock Sample at Channel 9
  47. Mapping Video Onto Avalon 3D Mesh Objects -- Sandbox3D V.0.0.0.2
  48. More 3D Samples: RHogue Does It Again
  49. Introducing Sandbox3D v.0.0.0.1
  50. Creating Avalon Friendly, Databound Indigo Proxy Classes With svcutil and /enableDataBinding
  51. Video in Avalon Beta 1 RC
  52. Updated Avalon Task Manager - 2D and 3D Dynamic Animations
  53. New Avalon and Indigo Posted
  54. FTP Sample Using Whidbey Updated (.NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2)
  55. Back on the Job/Back on the Blog
  56. ZAM3D -- Preview of Tool for Creating Avalon 3D
  57. Avalon as Convergence
  58. Live from FITC
  59. FITC Conference
  60. What's New the Avalon March CTP Posted
  61. More on the Amazon Web Services
  62. Amazon Web Services Samples
  63. MSDN Article on 2d/3d makes the Longhorn Dev Center Headlines
  64. Avalon bits now available publicly
  65. Avalon on Channel 9

2004 25

  1. Hosting An Avalon Application in a Browser: More than just flipping a bit
  2. More Avalon 3D Samples
  3. FTP Sample Using Whidbey (.NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2)
  4. Avalon is Back
  5. Flying Donuts: 3D Animation in Avalon Made Easy (V3 of my 3D experiments)
  6. Worldspace, Modelspace, Primitives and Code: The Donut Primitive, V2
  7. The Donut (aka Torus) Primitive: My Super Simple Avalon 3D Demo That Exercises The Mesh Primitives
  8. The .NET Framework, Genetic Programming and Rudy Rucker
  9. Another Great 3D Demo
  10. Installing Monad on XP or Win2k3
  11. Monad in the WinHec builds
  12. Gnarly 3D Avalon Sample (including source code) That Mimics Famous Amiga Demo
  13. P2P in Longhorn - Not Installed by Default...
  14. Avalon Quiz Answer: Beware of Dock.Fill and the Order of Elements
  15. Avalon Gotcha Quiz: What Did I Do Wrong?
  16. The Fundamentals: #3 Instrumentation and Probing
  17. The Fundamentals: #2 The New Registry
  18. The Fundamentals: #1 Next Generation Event Log
  19. The Fundamentals Pillar of Longhorn
  20. Writing Asynchronous, Bidirectional, Stateful, Reliable Web Services with Indigo
  21. Architecture Series on MSDN
  22. Tips for ClickOnce in Longhorn
  23. Reliable Messaging In Indigo
  24. Answering Some Questions About Indigo
  25. Back To Blogging