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  XAML + XLinq + VB.Net's XML Literals Equals Classic ASP For WinForms?

  Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP. The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working Read More... Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 4:24 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML, PDC
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  Windows Presentation Foundation As Explained By Pablo Fernicola - WPF Group Program Manager

  Well, well, well, Pablo Fernicola finally has a blog . Pablo is a Group Program Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly called Avalon). He will be presentation the following session at the PDC: PRS309 - Windows Presentation Foundation Read More... Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 9:31 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), PDC
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  Microsoft Codename Acrylic Does Not Do It For Me

  First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic . I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:39 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, PDC, Adobe Illustrator
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  Nautilus Project Team? Spelunking Corporate Secrets Thru Public Job Postings

  Chris Sells mentions that MS has 25 SDE positions with the keyword “Avalon” advertised on their public job listings. Now, since I’m always interested in things Avalon related, I decide to search the complete job posts, and not just for Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:49 PM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  VB6’ers Need a Hug (Well That And Maybe To Learn COBOL)

  Well you got to feel sorry for those that can’t accept that a love one is dying . No matter how much voodoo they try, they are not going to revive the body. COM was fundamentally flawed and Don Box published an article on that topic in MSDN Mag Read More... Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:55 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  A More Definitive XAML Definition

  Disclaimer: My name is Don Demsak, and I’m not a Microsoft employee. I am an independent consultant and a Microsoft MVP in the area of XML. Any information on a Microsoft technology contained in this post is publicly available and not covered under Read More... Posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 3:54 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML
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  Avalon Not Ensured To Be Included In Longhorn?

  eWeek Senior Writer, Darryl Taft contacted me last week and asked about how I’d feel if Microsoft dropped Avalon from the Longhorn release, and then put some of my comments in this article . He mentioned that he had a quote from a Microsoft exec Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 21, 2004 2:43 PM by donxml | 10 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  My Quotes in an eWeek Article

  eWeek has an article on Xamlon , and it contains a couple quotes from your truly. I would have preferred to be called an XML evangelist, rather than an XML expert, but it isn’t that big of a deal. Also, ‘domain logical” should be “domain Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:46 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML
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  80% of Windows Developers Will Not Understand XAML

  With the announcement the end of last week that Microsoft is decoupling Avalon from Longhorn and will make it backward compatible with WinXP and Win2k3 Server, I’m sure there are some out there that wonder what my take on it. First off, let’s Read More... Posted Monday, August 30, 2004 10:37 AM by donxml | 6 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG
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  W3C Compound Documents Workshop Position Papers Available

  The position papers for The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents are now available for you viewing pleasure. I love this topic (rendering multi-namespace documents), but I can not attend this workshop, but I will be watching it closely. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:59 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG
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  Pablo Fernicola on .Net Show

  Group Program Manager, Pablo Fernicola and Lead Program Manager David Ornstein, both from the Avalon team, are on the latest . Net Show so stop by and check it out. While I was at the MVP Summit I was able to finally meet Pablo, and one of my comments Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:34 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Longhorn Build 4074 SDK Now Available

  Ask , and you shall receive. The build 4074 SDK is now on the MSDN Universal Site. Thanks Chris and Dave . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More... Posted Friday, May 07, 2004 9:26 AM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Fumiaki Yoshimatsu’s Refactoring the XAML Analog Clock

  Fumiaki had a go at refactoring the XAML analog clock and tried to use a MVC design approach. He didn’t like that I was using 3 timelines, and came up with a pretty ingenious solution, something I didn’t think of. He switched the hands of Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:54 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Vector Graphics and Declarative Animation with Avalon – the Analog Clock

  I finally got the first of a series of articles on Avalon finished. The actual time to write the code was only about an hour, but the writing the article was the long and hard part. I step you thru the process of using vector graphics and declarative Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:54 PM by donxml | 8 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Two New XAML Tools For the Price of One

  Working with Chris Sells on a project has certain “benefits” associated with it, and one of the big ones is his ability to find the right person in Microsoft that can help solve a problem. When he asked for a batch version of the Svg2Xaml tool, I said Read More... Posted Sunday, December 14, 2003 4:27 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)