Holy cow; there are already jobs for XAML folk...

Joe Marini, the king of code-less Avalon, has done it again, this time adding interactivity to his samples using Avalon property triggers, all w/o a line of code.

Ari Bixhorn, Lead Product Manager on the Indigo team, talks about his hopes and dreams for Indigo.

I didn’t know that I’d been nominated, but apparently I was canonized yesterday as the Patron Saint of Smart Client Applications. I promise to be a firm but fair Deity. : )

“Karsten shows how to build an animated version of Task Manager using the 2-D animation infrastructure provided by Avalon, then moving into the world of 3-D, showing how to create a dynamically animated 3-D mesh.”

Jason Whittington has some thoughts about ClickOnce and user-managed permission evaluation. Basically, he thinks that the user should have to sacrifice a chicken to get a FullTrust component running on their box via ClickOnce (I'm paraphrasing : ). I definitely see his pov. Thoughts?

Rod Paddock sat down to use Avalon in a real way and then kept notes.

Some of those notes said good things about Avalon

Some of them said not so good things.

While we appreciate the good things, we need to hear about the bad things. And we appreciate it. Thanks, Rod!

Keep it coming!

Ford McKinstry, PM on the Microsoft Indigo team, gives us a hint as to when the next preview release of the Indigo bits will be available:

“We are planning a CTP release with Indigo soon after the VSLive event. But  it will not be available simultaneously with VSLive. We’re moving on it as quickly as we can and we appreciate your interest and patience. –Ford McKinstry, Indigo Program Manager”

[via Stuart Celarier]