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  Most Anticipated PDC 2005 Session

  I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow). The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:28 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, PDC
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  Microsoft Codename Acrylic Does Not Do It For Me

  First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic . I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:39 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, PDC, Adobe Illustrator
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  Adobe To Acquire Macromedia

  Hmm, just heard about this news . Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML? Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 8:37 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  80% of Windows Developers Will Not Understand XAML

  With the announcement the end of last week that Microsoft is decoupling Avalon from Longhorn and will make it backward compatible with WinXP and Win2k3 Server, I’m sure there are some out there that wonder what my take on it. First off, let’s Read More... Posted Monday, August 30, 2004 10:37 AM by donxml | 6 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG
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  Cool Graphic Artist/Coder/Hacker

  I’ve known about the the ForgetFoo and his side project GotFoo websites for a while, but haven’t mentioned them on my blog. It seems as though he creates all his own graphics, and has a bunch of cool javascript tricks to make his sites very unique. The Read More... Posted Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:48 AM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG
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  SVG to XAML-GUI Tool

  Well, it took a little longer than I thought, but I finally got the current version of SharpVectorGraphics converted to run on .Net 2.0 and the Longhorn SDK (PDC build), and added a print feature. Sometimes when you are experiencing some weird problems, Read More... Posted Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:05 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG
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  A Tool For Converting SVG to XAML

  While going thru the process of learning to convert SVG to XAML , I always had in the back of my mind that I would eventually write a tool that do this conversion automatically. I had assumed that it would be a bit of a chore to do, and that I would use Read More... Posted Friday, November 07, 2003 8:28 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG