DesignersLove.Net Debuts Came across DesignersLove.Net via a post over on Chris Anderson’s blog. It’s just getting started, but I’m already sending the link out to all of my designer friends. I have been trying to preach to them about the separation of content and behavior in Avalon and they really seem to love the idea of maintaining […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
March CTP Avalon+Indigo+WinFX SDK Now Available For Public Download Saw this morning that the SDK is now available to the masses. Click here to head on over and download it. Make sure you’re running the right VS.NET versions and that you pay close attention to the uninstall/re-install order. FWIW, I had no problems uninstalling the previous CTP and installing the new CTP on top […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Chris Anderson Releases AvPad For March CTP Bits The simplest development environment for those of us diving into Avalon these days has just been updated. AvPad, originally called XamlPad, offers a really simple RAD experience for people who want to mock up Avalon interfaces or just learn XAML+Avalon in real-time. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Official Change Log for Avalon March CTP Posted Here’s the official word on all the changes in the Avalon March CTP drop. As a result I will not be making any more changes to the temporary change log I created for the die hard Avaloners out there that needed the info day zero. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
March CTP of Avalon+Indigo+WinFX SDK Released As expected, the March CTP drop of the Avalon+Indigo+WinFX SDK has been released to MSDN subscribers. I imagine it will be available to the general public within the next couple of weeks. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Avalon March CTP Documentation Update, Brief Change Log From Personal Observations The documentation for the March CTP of Avalon has been released. I assume we can expect the actual SDK to be released soon. Here’s a brief change log that I’ve started gathering on my own, I will continue to expand the article over time. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Aero Not Based On Avalon? Scoble says Aero is not based on Avalon. I’m not so sure about that. To the best of my knowledge it is. I mean, it’s entirely possible that it’s not since it could skirt around Avalon and talk directly to DirectX and/or the Longhorn Display Driver Model (LDDM) itself, but then that would mean that I’ve […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
A Rebuttal Of Mr. Grimes’ Avalon -> Win32 Ties Accusation I’m sure we’ve all seen Richard’s commentary on the state of .NET as well as Dan Fernandez’s rebuttal. If not, go read those first. Since the subject has already been talked to death from the .NET framework perspective, the only thing that I wanted to address is the assertion that Richard makes in his follow up comment […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Shipping Apples Vs. Oranges Ok, so I was reading /.’s coverage of Mark Lucovsky jumping ship from MS to Google. Naturally I expected the typical anti-MS spin and of course it was there, but in the form of link to an entry on Mark’s blog about Microsoft not being very good at shipping software. In this entry Mark analyzes the way […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Longhorn FUD Spreading Like Wildfire According to this post over at TSS.NET, Avalon and Indigo have now been dropped as pillars of Longhorn. Unfortunately the post doesn’t link to any source for where they are getting this information. Personally I think it’s misinterpretation. I mean there were only three pillars that really made Longhorn anything other than a service pack and if […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
