I took a look at the Channel 9 sample that is in the 3D tools and was messing around with making it easy to edit in Blend.

Currently there is just a specific XAML element in the resources (Border elements Visual1 and Visual2)… unfortunately you cant edit a resource like this in Blend (somebody prove me wrong please)… But you can get around this solution by creating a Control element with a ControlTemplate resource… Then you just edit the ControlTemplate in Blend and you can start designing the 2D surface that is going to be projected on the 3D surface fully in the tool.

Im going to try to do this using a UserControl next which I assume might be a bit more functional of a solution… But doing this as a control works pretty smoothly for me.

Whoohoo! Its what I was hoping for.

And the best part? It works great in Blend!

The TrackBallDecorator is sweet!

Somebody is good at “apple” style marketing…“Oh and one other thing…”

Some 3D goodness is coming… So keep your eye on the wpf3d teams blog. I have my suspicions on what it is. There are a few key things that will totally change the landscape if they happen and Im hoping that its what I think it is. 

Oh and PDC 2007 is announced… Hope I can go to it again… Been to the last two and it would be tradition if I can make it 3 in a row.

Oh and Mix ’07 is coming… It was a killer event last year. Can only be better this year. 

Man today is fun! So many posts from the community.

Havent seen this hit the WPF posts quite yet (or I am not reading closely enough)

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/thepanel/featured/universs.aspx

UniveRSS is a 3D RSS feed reader for Windows Vista. It leverages the Windows Presentation Foundation and provides a stunning way of visualizing RSS feeds and their content. It introduces a full-screen 3D universe where galaxies represent the folders of your RSS feed directory, and the stars are represented by the spinning cubes that hold the feed information. Size and position of the feed cubes indicate how many unread items they contain.

New public CTP of “Design” and new public Beta 1 of “Blend” (aka Interactive Designer)…

Check out the Expression Blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/default.aspx

Download it and start blending things

Whoohooo!!! Now its gonna get fun!

http://blogs.msdn.com/jstegman/archive/2006/12/04/in-with-the-new.aspx