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 
o XAML Compound Syntax - Turn Attributes Into Tags 
o XAML Compact Syntax - Turn Tags Into Attributes 
o XAML History 
o Avalon History 
o What is XAML? Revisited 
o Inside XAML - How does a XAML parser work? 
o What is Windows Forms Markup Language (WFML)? 
o What is MyXAML? 
o First Impression - MyXAML In Action 
o The MyXAML Toolbox 
o XAML-Friendly, Markup-Friendly .NET Libraries 
o XAML-Friendly .NET Library Case Study 
o XAML-Friendly .NET Library Case Study: Gtk# 
o MyXAML Article Mania - Getting Started With MyXAML 
o Roll Your Own XAML Parser - What is MycroXAML? 
o First Impression - MycroXAML In Action 
o MSXAML vs. MyXAML vs. WFML 
o Internet Explorer Is Dead - The Next Browser Is
Windows 2006 Itself 
o Quotes From the Microsoft Avalon Team 
o The Commercial Web vs. the Hippie Web 
o Amazon.com Case Study - Will Amazon.com Adopt XAML? 
o Google.com Case Study - Will Google.com Adopt XAML? 
o Reach vs. Rich - HTML vs XAML - Web vs. Windows 
o XAML Links, Links, Links 
o That's it - The Future Just Happened 

  See http://netbc.ca for details.

  - Gerald


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