Tim Sneath posts up the official set of changes (Word format) for the May Beta 1 RC. Word is this will also be availble on MSDN soon. It actually has a less complete list of renames/reorganizations than the change log I’ve been maintaining so be sure to check that out, but it does a better job introducing some of […]

I’ve started documenting some of the changes to the Avalon APIs between the March CTP and the May Beta 1 RC. The list is brief and only includes the major ones for now, but I’ll continue to update it as I learn more. The intention of this list is to hold people over until Microsoft […]

From the main download page, you will find a link to the updated SDK (iso format). Looks like Friday’s announcement kinda jumped the gun, but it’s all available now. Oh and for those who were asking, yes, this build is 100% compatible with Whidbey Beta 2.

This ought to supply the geeks with something to do this weekend… besides going to see Star Wars of course. 😉 I’ll try and do some coverage of Avalon changes/additions since the March CTP. Oh and congrats to both teams for reaching Beta status! Note: if the link doesn’t come up for you I think […]

Nick Kramer, a PM on the Avalon team, bursts into the blogging scene with his first post being about Avalon’s various naming conventions. The primary need for these conventions is for discoverability through reflection. The primary “client” that needs to reflect on types using these patterns is the Avalon serialization architecture itself. However, these patterns can also be leveraged by design time […]

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 […]