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
Grant Hinkson’s Fireworks to XAML Exporter featured on the Adobe Developer Center
November 28th, 2006 | Posted by in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)Grant has a great article on Adobe Dev Center…
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/fw_xaml_exporter.html
Check it out… The Fireworks to XAML exporter is a fantastic tool!
This conversation is making the rounds again…
http://stephendeken.net/index.cgi/2006/11/15/Vector_Vs_Raster_The_Fools_Game
Most of the conversation isnt working WPF into the picture. Using things like DrawingImage really changes the whole game.
What I think it all boils down to is use the right tool for the right job. If you are only doing a 16×16 icon and targeting only fixed resolution devices… then vectors might be more expensive than necessary. If you are targeting multi resolution devices vectors can be very beneficial. Creating iconography with mixed media (vectors/rasters together) is where its at though… DrawingImage supports this nicely. One thing that I think is really hot is embedding DrawingImages in DrawingImages… I tried it out the other day and it worked great. You can have reusable elements in your icons being shared across icons.
Im officially dumbstruck… This now is the coolest thing I have ever done on a computer! And that is saying alot since I get to play with some pretty dang cool stuff doing what I do.
Unbelievable peak into the future of how to organize information… I think this means alot more than just photo browsing.. Libraries, Amazon.com, historical data sets, etc.
This experience really proves out the importance of animations to provide feedback to the users… Visually the experience is very abstract and confusing but you quickly learn the experience because so much is communicated via animation. Bravo!
http://labs.live.com/photosynth
Microsoft is on a roll this week! .NET 3.0, 3D Virtual Earth, Vista, Xbox360 HD marketplace, Zune is fast approaching.
Google seems to be sleeping lately. They must have some amazing tricks up their sleeve, but for now MSFT is on top in my book… Its amazing how that works. We judge a companies capabilities by eye candy and whiz these days. Google releases cool simplicity and solves the user problems elegantly. Then they do something amazing like Google Earth and they are the new shizzy.
Microsoft volleys back with whiz like this and all of a sudden they regain my crown of the coolest kid in town.
Further proves that distinct UI is going to be the arms race of the future. Mmmmmm… Job security
Wow! Im sad Im not there… There has to be some serious celebrating going on. And there should be. This is an amazing milestone. This is the beginning of a new era of user interface design and software development.
Congratulations everyone!
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 CTP Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF)
Microsoft Windows SDK for .NET Framework 3.0
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows WorkFlow Foundation
Happy day to see the IE team get this sucker out the door.
Congratulations to the whole team!
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