IronPython Becoming The Official Scripting Language for AvPad

Chris Anderson is jumping on the Python bandwagon and is building support into AvPad for IronPython as a scripting language. Pretty interesting stuff. In his latest post, he has extended IronPython to support ICustomTypeDescriptor so that you can interrogate an IronPython object at runtime and discover properties that may have been added on the fly. The main […]

More on Layout Differences Between Setting RenderTransform vs. TransformDecorator

Filipe shows the layout difference between applying a straight Transform to a UIElement’s RenderTransform and nesting the element in a TransformDecorator with AffectsLayout=”True”. He doesn’t show it, but it’s important to note that TransformDecorator with AffectsLayout=”False” results in the same effect as a straight RenderTransform, making it pretty much senseless to use in that case since the […]

Viewbox vs. TransformDecorator for Layout

Filipe Fortes, a PM on the Avalon team over at Microsoft, has put up a couple of posts about the Viewbox and TransformDecorator with a ScaleTransform. His posts deal specifically with the different effects the two have on content layout. This is yet another part of Avalon that I see people having difficulty adjusting to. Definitely a must read for anyone who is […]