Ian Dives Deep Into Animation

I said that animation in Avalon is simple. Ian said that it’s hard. We’re both right (I was talking about the programming model and Ian is talking...

Getting Out The Vote: Save Ctrl+F5 in VS05!

When I noticed the behavior that Ian describes in VS05b1 (that Ctrl+F5 no longer works to launch a console app with “Press any key to continue…” at...

JohnMont Wants Feedback on WinForms/Avalon Interop

John Montgomery wants to know: “[W]hen it comes to Avalon and Windows Forms interop, I’m curious: how many people will use it and what will they use...

Best of the Blogs: VS Tools for Office 2003

the best VSTO blog entries in 2003VSTO...

Products and Money

This one’s a double-header: Eric Sink talks about how to find a product to build (if you’re a micro-ISV). Joel talks about how much to charge for...

Snorkeling Is Unbelievably Wonderful

I just got back from a 3-family, 6-day trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (“a pleasant fishing village paved over for tourist hotels”) and it was...

Avalon Chess

The Avalon experiments keep on happening. This time, check out Avalon Chess...

Edward Tufte + Avalon == Visualization Goodness

I’ve long held the belief that the big deal about Avalon is that it provided a platform for a whole new class of data visualization and manipulation...