Avalon+XAML for Windows XP Now Available For Download

Hello,

  Rob Relyea - the XAML spec owner at Microsoft (Mr.
XAML) - wrote up a blog story titled "3rd public
release of Avalon...a few details on the development
experience" announcing that the first beta for the
Avalon library for Windows XP is now available for
download as part of the new WinFX SDK package.

  Rob writes:

  I'm happy that this release will able to run on
Windows XP (and Windows Server 2003 too).  I have this
build running on my laptop with xp sp2, and it has
very little impact on my daily use unless I'm building
an application and running it.

  Installing VS beta1, Avalon, and then WinFX SDK will
give you a decent VS development experience for Avalon
applications.

  We have 4 project templates for Visual Basic or C#
developers.

 * Avalon Application
 * Avalon Browser Application - will run in Internet
Explorer by just changing a property in the .csproj or
.vbproj file
 * Avalon Navigation Application
 * Avalon Control Library

 In the xml editor, while editing a XAML page, you
should get decent intellisense since the WinFX SDK
installs a schema for Avalon class use in XAML.  Look
in %programfiles%\microsoft visual studio
8\xml\schemas\ for avalon*.xsd and xaml*.xsd

  No visual designer yet...  :-(

  F1 Help works from C# or VisualBasic code.  In the
XML Editor though, it is broken in this build.

  No major XAML syntax changes in this build, but many
changes to the elements and other features you can
use.

  Give it a try...would love to see what you can do
with it...   

  Source:
http://www.longhornblogs.com/rrelyea/archive/2004/11/19/7322.aspx

  If anyone tries out the new WinFX package for
Windows XP, let us know how it goes and what you
think.

   - Gerald 

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Gerald Bauer
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