“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.”
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!
“[W]hen it comes to Avalon and Windows Forms interop, I’m curious: how many people will use it and what will they use it for? What are the scenarios that we’ll see? I have my own opinions, of course, but I’m curious about what you think. I’d like to be able to have a conversation with both teams about what scenarios we should optimize for.”
Kevin Schuler and Drew Robbins have compiled a list of dozens of the best VSTO blog entries in 2003 across seven categories ranging from architecture to troubleshooting. If you're into VSTO, this should provide some pleasant holiday reading for you. Enjoy!
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 software, stuff that most of us can’t even dream of right now. But Edward Tufte can dream of it and in one of his dreams, he invented Sparklines, a very nice way to integrate graphics directly into a sentence instead of relegating it to a whole other paragraph.
