Weird Al’s White n’ Nerdy. Sheer genius. Nothing more even needs to be said.

The toolkit is certainly getting better with every release. The coolest thing added this time around has to be the support for declarative animation. Very WPF like… though no where near as nice because browsers just suck at this stuff. 😛 I’m still waiting on the release of Sept. CTP for Atlas itself… hint hint. […]

So we’re in the process of migrating our ASP.NET 1.1 application to 2.0. In 1.1 there was no intrinsic solution to handling resources baked into the ASP.NET runtime. With the advent of 2.0, we now how ResourceExpressionBuilder which allows us to very easily integrate resources into our ASP.NET “code-in-front” using a new expression syntax that looks […]

Since MSBuild ships with only a core set of intrinsic tasks, we recently downloaded the MSBuild community tasks and went to town with experimenting converting some of our existing nAnt scripts to MSBuild. We use nAnt’s xmlpeek/xmlpoke quite a bit to tweak our .NET config files for different deployment targets. I noticed the community tasks project had a […]

Here’s some quick and dirty changes I’ve noticed from the March CTP to the May Beta 1 RC. Hopefully Microsoft will post a formal change log soon: General FrameworkElement::ID property renamed FrameworkElement::Name. Subsequently any properties that used to point to a FrameworkElement by ID now point by Name (e.g. SetterTimeLine::TargetName). IPropertyChanged interface renamed to INotifyPropertyChanged System.Windows.Shapes.StretchableShape […]

There have been several changes between the November ’04 drop of the Avalon CTP and the March ’05 drop. This article aims to offer a list with some insight on each of those changes. For a list of what’s changed with each update I make, click here. Update List: (hide) 3/16/051:20AM Added VisualBrush detail Added […]

Adobe has open sourced a couple libraries they’re working on called Adam and Eve. From my brief skim through the overview, both libraries essentially sound like they aim to provide a cross platform architecture that is somewhat equivalent to what Avalon is going to deliver for Windows. Adam, for example, sounds somewhat like the DependencyObject + DependencyProperty + Expression features of […]

I was doing my part restoring the content of some pages that some idiot decided to spam with links this evening, but man is the Channel9 Wiki sloooow. It’s 12:45 ET right now and there are like ten people on the Channel9 site according to the stats, so what’s up with the weak performance? : […]

After reading this post on IEBlog, particularily this part: “I’d love to say more about what we’re working on right now on this front. I can’t.” … I just felt I needed to vent a little frustration and make a request to the team. I don’t understand why you guys can’t talk about what you’re doing with […]