It's a common Avalon question: how does XAML get translated into an Avalon visual tree, i.e. the set of Avalon objects? In this post, Zhanbo Sun, an SDE/T on the Avalon team, not only shows an example of this translation, but provides the code so that you can see it for yourself. Maybe Chris Anderson will add this feature to XamlPad so that you can see it interactively or maybe Gaston Milano will add it to his VS XAML Viewer so that you can see it inside of Visual Studio... [hint, hint]

As cool as Chris Anderson’s XamlPad sample is, I think Gaston “I’m a VS man” Milano has done him one better with a XAML viewer integrated directly into Visual Studio 2005 beta 1. Wahoo!

Karsten has updated his 3D animation play toy to the Avalon CTP.

Chris Anderson has posted two samples of Avalon and Windows Forms integration (a simple one and a more complicated one). Both are presented in a form that's easy to use with his ClickOnce XamlPad Clone. Enjoy.

Daniel Lehenbauer, an SDE on the Avalon team, has ported his 3D Bouncing Ball Boing demo to the Avalon CTP. The hits, they just keep on coming. : )

Tim Sneath, Avalon evangelist and all around charming fellow (maybe because his name reminds me of a Dr. Suess character?), posted a nice little tour of Avalon via the the WinFX SDK. Enjoy.

Rob Relyea, a Lead PM on the Avalon team, has posted a set of instructions for using the Avalon CTP project templates from Visual C# Express and Visual Basic Express.

Robi Khan and Mark Levison from Databeacon will be doing a MSDN DevChat on their recent commercial application using No-Touch Deployment. It’s on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 10am PST. I’ll be watching and you can sign up here.