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Flex is OSS
Jesse has the scoop . Very big announcement from Adobe on the open sourcing of Flex. JD has a collection of links to folks thoughts on this. The possibility of creating a .NET version of Flex is closer with the source to hand.
It's MAX time
The Adobe MAX show gets underway this week, Chafic Kazoun will giving a session on .NET interop with Flex will be occuring twice during the show so if your going be sure to not miss that. I won't be attending the show but I really hope that the sessions...
Posted: Oct 24 2006, 12:27 AM by astopford | with no comments
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A look at WPF from a Flash background
Lee has some really cool WPF demo's and has been using WPF for his research and work projects. Lee comes from a Flash background and in this post compares his experinces so far with working with WPF\Expression to working with Flash. His insights and thoughts...
Posted: Jun 08 2006, 01:55 PM by astopford | with no comments
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XAML button animation
If you have been using the O'Reilly WPF book then on page 191 it has a section on animating color on buttons, its not listed on Chris's errata page but for referance it should be. < EventTrigger RoutedEvent = " Click " > < EventTrigger.Actions...
Flex 2 goes free (and still no .NET support)
Via Jesse , the Flex 2 framework will be made available for free with Flex Builder 2 (Zorn) and Flex 2 ES avilable commerically ( with Zorn being priced under a 1000 dollars ). Beta 1 of all of these bits should be available from Adobe Labs (run by ex...
Posted: Feb 07 2006, 09:20 AM by astopford | with 1 comment(s)
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Wrox WPF book
Scott has the low down on his new WPF book for Wrox , let me know if your going to Mix Scott? Would be good to hear more about the book.
Posted: Jan 30 2006, 09:01 PM by astopford | with no comments
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The great interface revolution
A few days ago I was talking with my master chief about interface design, RIAs and WPF. In a business application you often see the standard win32 elements, radio buttons, tree lists, tabs etc. What was confusing was how something like WPF could fit into...
Flex 2.0 public release
Not sure if this is a new thing but hot on todays Sparkle release is a public release of Flex 2.0 on the new Adobe labs site, it includes Flex 2.0 Builder (Zorn), Flex, Flex Enterprise Services and an adapter for integrating Flex and ColdFusion. Its a...
Posted: Jan 24 2006, 10:43 PM by astopford | with no comments
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Sparkle public CTP
The first public CTP of sparkle is out , be sure to post your feedback on the forums.
Going to Mix 06
I will be attending the Mix 06 show in Vegas this coming March. I was holding out on blogging the news as I had a automation session proposed, for reasons that will escape me forever its not going to happen. Automation is a corner stone of testing your...
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