Ron DeSerranno, founder and CEO of Mobiform, a company that’s been busy building Avalon and XAML tools since the October 2003 PDC, is giving a talk on how “Avalon in conjunction with XAML will revolutionize the user experience on the web and in desktop applications. XAML and Avalon provide a powerful framework that can provide 2D and 3D graphics, fixed document format, animation and multimedia in a single markup language.”

The talk is at the TechVibes MASSIVE 2005 (clearly named by marketing folks : ), March 30th in Vancouver, BC. Drink a pint for me, eh? : )

Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to take advantage of the new web browser and control support in Windows Forms 2.0 to build a tabbed browser using Internet Explorer.

Dino Esposito takes you on "a whistle-stop tour of the new controls slated for Windows Forms 2.0 to make writing code more productive and pleasant than ever." Woo-Woo! : )

Another hot topic among Windows Forms programmers is extensibility:

• Add run-time functionality to your application by providing a plug-in mechanism
• Add Plugins to Your App 2: Search dynamically for plugins without Config Files
• The SharpDevelop add-in tree architecture
• Writing Plugin-Based Applications in .NET
• The MS-INC Plug-In Library
• The Razor Framework :: Part 1 :: Plugins/Extensibility
• Several nifty pieces on Lutz’s Reflector add-in model
• “Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime,” by Steven Pratscher
• On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures: Avoiding “plug-in hell” is from the Eclipse world, but I’m guessing it applies…

I know there are more pieces than just these, so send them along!

It seems that there are any number of ways to do multi-threading in Windows Forms. Here are some of the interesting techniques:

• Give Your .NET-based Application a Fast and Responsive UI with Multiple Threads, Ian Griffiths
• A number of Ted Pattison’s Basic Instincts column pieces cover threading
• Safe, Simple Multithreading in Windows Forms 1.x (part 1, part 2 and part 3), Chris Sells
• Safe, Even Simpler Multithreading in Windows Forms 2.0, Mike Weinhardt
• Asynchronous Windows Forms Programming, Juval Lwy (provides a BackgroundWorker component for Windows Forms 1.x)
• Making windows forms thread safe, Rüdiger Klaehn (generates a proxy class to do synchronization)
• The Daemon Inside and When to go async?, Matthew Adams

Cristian Civera, a Microsoft .NET MVP, has posted a preview of a tool to convert Windows Enhanced Metafiles, an existing vector graphics file format, to XAML, Avalon’s new format for describing vector graphics (among other things). Thanks, Cristian!

Joe Marini, has updated his famous XAML-only Avalon samples for the Nov. 2004 CTP. Thanks, Joe!

Robert Scoble has some stuff to say about Avalon, Indigo, Longhorn and packaging. Enjoy.