Man! We’ve been so busy making these things I havent fully realized how unbelievably cool these things are… Im pretty biased since I worked on them but there are a few that are a bit over my head to realize what this really means.

Im sitting in the back of the room watching Jonathan Russ present his contributions to blendables and the work he did on a Microsoft Dynamics project. The buzz is definitely starting…  From the back I can see a bunch of people very engaged and actively whispering.

Jonathan just created debug output in dbmon using only markup and his EvalBindings… Big deal to me cuz I love doing expressions in properties like I did in DHTML.

Stuart Mayhew from Erain just demoed bitmap effects in StandOut! Stuart is an amazing designer and if you havent had a chance to see his work you really oughtta. Seriously amazing framerate using full screen bitmap blur effects. Totally looked like a broadcast quality rendered video from a compositing application like AfterEffects. I love ElementSnapshot!

Josh Wagoner is showing how he built the Accruent application using WPF3D.

Suweet! Josh just built a 3D video carousel a la North Face, completely in markup in just a couple of minutes. It supported databinding, filtering, hit testing and a ton of other stuff… Rock on!

I better get ready to go up front and field questions in our developer/designer QA panel.