“Aurora is a graphical designer developed to create and edit Avalon Windows, elements, and controls. Aurora is built on top of Avalon and renders using the Avalon API. Aurora is designed for use with the November 2004 Avalon Technology Preview Community for Windows XP (CTP).”
“The Adobe® Illustrator® SVG Edition of XAMLConverter is now available for free evaluation. The process is as simple is running XAMLConverter, dragging an SVG exported from Adobe® Illustrator® onto the application and the file is automatically converted to XAML. In addition, XAMLConverter runs the XAML file so you may view the results.
“This edition can convert SVG created by tools other than Adobe® Illustrator®. But SVG exported from Adobe® Illustrator® is the only fully supported subset of SVG.”
Sometimes I miss some made-for-TV movie or series that I’d really like to see and that I didn’t know about before hand so that I could point my ReplayTV or MCE at it. The world needs NetFlix for TV.
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 about the nuts and bolts of the implementation), but Ian seems more right because of those fabulous example pictures that explain why wagon wheels look like they’re going backward. Now if he could only explain why computer screens in movies always look like they’ve been engineered to invoke seizures, we’d have something!
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 the end), I assumed it was a temporary bug. To learn that this feature was removed “by design” is devastating. As a presenter and technology experimenter, I’ve probably used this as much as any single feature in Visual Studio with the possible exception of the text editor.
