“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!

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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]

It's time for the annual .NET Developer’s Journal Reader’s Choice awards. Even better, this year Windows Forms Programming in C# has been nominated (yea!). And while it's an honor to be nominated, it'd be an even bigger honor to actually win (my birthday's coming up : ). Voting for MSDN and Visual Studio 2003 would be cool, too. Don't be shy! Vote!

I just noticed these two posts from Steve Makofsky formatting web content for compact devices:

• Pocket IE
• dasBlog and .Text on Pocket IE

Mostly, I’d listing these links for myself, as I’ve a hankering for some Smart Phone programming…

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If you’re not sure what the heck a Smart Client is, Tim Huckaby explains it like no other:

″This webcast defines the ‘smart client’ and explores the implications and opportunities for smart client application development. The session will focus heavily on high level demos of technologies like Windows Forms, Compact Framework, and Office System 2003 technologies. It will delve into the tips and tricks, positives and negatives when designing, developing and deploying .NET Smart Client applications. .NET Smart Client Applications can run on many different types of devices and in many different scenarios. Join this webcast to learn when it’s smartest to create rich or thin client applications and about how each type handles data and connectivity.”

Here.

I just noticed this on the MSDN Webcast list. I’m hoping to attend myself!

“The upcoming 2.0 release of .NET offers many new features and enhancements for the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and also for the standard Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. In this presentation, Derek Ferguson, Editor-in-Chief of the .NET Developer’s Journal, will provide a complete introduction to writing device-based applications using Compact Framework 2.0. Full coding demonstrations will be presented, so you are ready to catch the next wave in mobile .NET technology! Previous experience writing managed applications is assumed, but no specific experience with the Compact Framework is required.”