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Gerald Bauer | 6 Dec 20:25
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Free Live XAML Talk Today @ BCIT Burnaby at 7:00 pm


Hello,

  allow me to highlight today's free BC .NET user group meeting talk
titled "XAML - eXtensible Application Markup Language - Turn .NET into
a browser" 

  Date & Time:  Monday, 2004/12/06, 7:00 PM [Welcome time 6:30 PM]  

  Location: Building SW5, Room 1840, BCIT Burnaby Campus, 3700
Willingdon Ave, Burnaby, BC  

 
 And for a sneak preview here's the talk slide line-up:

o Agenda - The Road Ahead 
o Who is this guy? 
o About SchemaSoft 
o What is XAML? 
o First Impression - XAML In Action - Forms 
o Second Impression - XAML In Action - Documents 
o Third Impression - XAML In Action - 2D Vector Graphics 
o Lines of Code Benchmark: XAML vs. C# 
o XAML Widget Tag Sampling - XUL-like Tags 
o XAML Box Layout Tags (aka Panels) 
o XAML (Hyper)Text Tag Sampling - HTML-like Tags 
o XAML 2D Graphics Tag Sampling - SVG-like Tags 
o XAML Styling Sample 
o XAML and Open Standards 
o XAML is XML but XML is not XAML
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frankhileman | 6 Dec 22:14

Is Avalon a Turkey?


I have been concerned about some of the potentially unscalable 
design choices made for Avalon. This has nothing to do with the 
choice of .NET or vector graphics in general, it is simply Avalon 
API design decisions.

Read about some performance tests here:
http://groups-
beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.avalon
/browse_thread/thread/fcdce8ef8230d7b8

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Gerald Bauer | 8 Dec 20:23
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XAML: Turn .NET into a Browser Slides Now Online


Hello,

  in case anyone is interested the talk slides from this week's BC
.NET meeting are now online @
http://xaml.sourceforge.net/talk/dotnet-dec-2004/slides.html

  The talk agenda includes:

  * What is XAML? 
  * XAML Panorama - XAML in Action 
  * XAML Syntax Extensions, XAML History, Inside XAML 
  * XAML Alternatives - WFML, MyXAML, MycroXAML, Your Own XAML Parser 
  * XAML vs. HTML - Reach vs. Rich - Web vs. Windows 
  * XAML Links, Links, Links   

  Enjoy.

   - Gerald

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Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com
XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
XUL Alliance - http://xulalliance.org
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org

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Gerald Bauer | 9 Dec 22:09
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Move over HTML - Here Comes XAML


Hello,

  Adam Kinney - who works for Team Xamlon - has created the world's
first blog site using live XAML content.

  Adam writes in the blog story titled "New Site now renders XAML":

  If you add the extension ".xaml" to the address of any permalink on
this site and you have the Avalon CTP installed, you'll see the
content of the entry rendered in an AdaptiveMetricsContext Document.

  For example, the .xaml address to this entry is XAMLRenderingNotes.xaml

  You'll notice that right now I have to go with the old-fashioned
"footnote" style for HyperLinks in XAML. I'm getting some bug where
the HyperLink only wants to navigate to other xaml files and complians
when any content of type "text/html" are sent its way. I have posted
this bug to the newsgroups, so it'll be interesting to see what they say.

  Allright! Now I can sleep peacefully knowing that there is live XAML
content on the web.

   Source:
http://www.adamkinney.com/Notebook/2004/12/06/XAMLRenderingNotes

  What's your take? Will switch over your sites to XAML anytime soon?

   - Gerald
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frankhileman | 9 Dec 22:12

Re: Move over HTML - Here Comes XAML


:)
Get back to us in 3-4 years...

--- In xaml-talk <at> yahoogroups.com, "Gerald Bauer" <vamp201 <at> y...> 
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>   What's your take? Will switch over your sites to XAML anytime 
soon?

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Gerald Bauer | 14 Dec 04:58
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XAML Champion of the Year 2004 - Call For Nominations


Hello,

   The Richmond Post will honor the oustanding achievements of
individuals in the XAML universe with a "XAML Champion of the Year
2004" award.

   I invite you to send in your nominations for inclusion in the
upcoming "Who is Your XAML Champion of the Year 2004?" poll.

   So far the "XAML Champion of the Year 2004" nomination line-up
includes:

  * Marc Clifton (of MyXAML fame)
  * Frank Hileman (Early MyXAML adopter for VG.NET)
  * Ron DeSerranno (of Mobiform XAML fame)
  * Paul Colton (of Xamlon fame)
  * Chris Sells (Microsoft XAML Promoter) 
  * Chris Anderson (of XAMLPad fame)
  * Rob Relyea (Mr. XAML)

   - Gerald

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XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com
XUL Alliance - http://xulalliance.org
United XAML - http://unitedxaml.org
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Alexandra | 15 Dec 20:12
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Get a jump on Tomorrow's Technology today!


Mobiform Software is offering an Introductory Course on Microsoft 
Avalon and XAML. It will be an in-depth and hands-on course with 
strict adherence to Microsoft's specifications on this technology.

Don't wait too long for seats are filling up quickly. In fact,
the course on January 19 – 21st has already sold out and there are
only a limited number of seats left on the 5th and 12th dates.

For your convenience I have included a link to the course schedule.
http://www.mobiform.com/2005/Courses/courseSchedule.htm

Additionally here is a copy of the course outline.

Introduction
   Introduction to Declarative Programming
      XAML Syntax
   Introduction to the Microsoft Avalon Object Model
      Namespace Hierarchy
      DependencyObject
      Dependency Properties
      Logical Tree
   Visual Studio 2005
      Setup for XAML and Avalon on Windows XP
      Avalon Project Types
   2D Objects 
      Geometric Shapes
      Brush Types and Gradients 
      9 Grid Brush 
      Paths and Path Figures
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Gerald Bauer | 15 Dec 21:27
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Scriptable MyXaml with NVelocity


Hello,

  Chanwit Kaewkasi (from Thailind) writes in the blog story titled
"Scriptable MyXaml with NVelocity":

  I'm very impressed by MyXaml at first sight. Creating GUI with its
declarative programming style is very useful for me. My idea is to
generate .NET GUI of Hibernate's Beans via reflection (see last post).
After surveying some template generators, I've found CodeSmith,
TahoGen, and NVelocity. I've selected NVelocity because it's under
Apache license. CodeSmith cannot be distributed with MyXaml (because
of it's GPLed). Alternatively, you can wait for TahoGen. But now I
have a working .NET UserControl of MyXaml that dynamic. :)

  Here is a screenshot(click to enlarge):

  ...

  Code snippet:

<GroupBox def:Name="grpNavBar" Text="test" Location="8,8" Size="150,150">
  <Controls>
    #foreach ( $item in [1..3] )
      #set( $loc = $item * 25)
      <LinkLabel def:Name="lnkTest${item}" Text="test" Location="8,
$loc" Tag="Test" />
    #end
  </Controls>
</GroupBox>
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Gerald Bauer | 16 Dec 04:32
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XAML Parser/Toolkit of the Year 2004 - Call for Nominations


Hello,

  to find the most popular XAML and XAML-like Parser/Toolkit of the
Year 2004 for .NET/Mono/DotGNU I will open up a poll that will run for
two weeks at the end of the week.

  I invite you to send in your nominations for inclusion in the
upcoming "What is Your XAML Parser/Toolkit of the Year 2004?" poll.

  So far the nomination line-up includes:   

  * MyXAML
  * MycroXAML
  * Microsoft XAML (Windows XP Edition)
  * Microsoft XAML (Windows 2006 Edition)
  * Mobiform XAML
  * Xamlon
  * Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML)

   - Gerald

PS: You can see the results of a similar poll run by the Richmond Post
last spring online @
http://xul.sourceforge.net/post/2004/03/poll_results_what_netmonodotgnu_xul_toolkit_do_you_use_most_and_the_winner_is.html

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XAML Forum & News - http://xamlnews.com
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xaml-talk | 21 Dec 05:34
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New poll for xaml-talk


Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the 
xaml-talk group:

What is Your XAML Parser/Toolkit of the
Year 2004? 

  o MyXAML 
  o MycroXAML 
  o Microsoft XAML (Windows XP Edition) 
  o Microsoft XAML (Windows 2006 Edition) 
  o Mobiform XAML 
  o Xamlon 
  o Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML) 
  o Other (Please Post Your Comments To The List) 

To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xaml-talk/surveys?id=908906 

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are 
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups 
web site listed above.

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