Mike Marshall over at the 19th hole has been digging into Avalon to experiment with scalable graphics, golf, ClickOnce and 3rd party drawing tools. Check out these installments:

• My foray into the Avalon CTP
• The first hurdle: Creating Complex XAML Paths the Quick and Painless Way
• Step 2: Adding custom XAML attributes
• more to come…

I love that folks have started to document their learning processes on their blogs. There’s no better way for the WinFX folks to get a look at how folks are approaching their technology. Keep it up!

To avoid intimidating people, I generally don’t wear the tight shirts in public, but Dax Pandhi captures my hidden muscles perfectly! : )

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Deepak gives a very simple intro to building menus in Avalon, effectively answering the common questions I normally get about this very subject.

Shawn Burke from the Windows Forms team is trying to make the Windows Forms source available for stepping into during a debugging session. Wahoo! He's pretty sure he can give it to us w/o the comments. That's a step up from viewing it via Reflector, imo. Leaving in comments requires all kinds of reviewing work that he may not be able to get to. What do you think? Let Shawn know.

Shawn Burke, Dev. Manager on the Windows Forms team, thinks that MS has finally figured out the problem with controls disappearing from the Designer and points to a fix, mentions an SP for VS03 and promises these fixes applied to VS05.

Shawn, on behalf of the Windows Forms developer community, I’d like to just say: Wahoo!

Come and see Jim Blizzard off right. As the founder of the Portland Nerd Dinner, he will be sorely missed. If you want to contribute to the planning of our founder’s last dinner, drop Rich a line. We’ve got some fun stuff planned, but could always use more. : )

Kevin Moore, a PM on the Avalon team, is in London for one night (Feb. 28) and wants to gather the Avalon enthused together for dinner. Microsoftie's have expense accounts for this kind of thing, so if you can stand to listen to Avalon talk over shepherd's pie, you should let him know!

Mobiform has updated their Aurora XAML editor for using on the November 2004 CTP of Avalon.