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A new MSDN TV episode just rolled out. This one is all about XAML. Don and Chris do an awesome job showing us once again that XAML really has nothing to do with Avalon. *grin* Their demo happens to be creating a custom console framework and then leveraging...
Nathan Dunlap points out that resources can be defined at the application level in XAML. This enables the resources to be used across all “pages” in an Avalon application. He then makes the analogy between this technique and using a base CSS...
Nathan Dunlap is a designer on the Avalon team. If you're into Avalon and not already subscribed to the main LonghornBlogs feed you should, at the very least, do yourself a favor and subscribe to his feed. He recently posted an entry about the DrawingBrush...
Once I noticed the NineGridBrush , I was very impressed and excited to use it. So I thought of an interesting way to display its usage. Enter the NineGridMan. ... [LonghornBlogs.com] I hadn't come across this class yet. The Avalon API is soooo huge. It...
To counter Frans Bouma's perspective on Microsoft's employees using the weblogging medium to ask for the community's feeback, I'd just like to say I love it. I think it's the greatest thing that can happen for all of us. Why? Well, like it or not (I happen...
Don't like the way XAML works today? Have some ideas that you think will make it easier to work with or more robust? Well here's your chance to make yourself heard. Personally, I think XAML has everyone confused as hell right now. Microsoft currently...
Well I guess I can skip discussing Avalon's Changeable pattern in my Avalon Dissected series now. Greg Schechter, the member of the Avalon team responsible for this pattern, has explained it in this post over on his weblog.
I've just published part two of my Avalon Dissected series. This part of the article aims at covering three of the major classes that make up the Avalon control architecture. Check it out right here . Update: Fixed URL to article. Sorry 'bout that, I...
I've just released the first part of a series of articles covering Avalon that I've titled Avalon Dissected . They're completely free and they're based on my personal experience with the Avalon framework so far. They are my interpretations of the information...
Sam Ruby also was inspired by Chris Sells' XAML and Dynamic Properties post. Sam laments Chris' use of individual Background attributes on each Border element and proposes a CSS-based alternative. Either ChrisAn or Rob have already written on why we don...
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