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Watch the PDC Talks

As Mike announced last night, the PDC talks have been posted online for streaming. Here’s a direct link to my talk: PRS330: Creating Rich Content Experiences in Your WPF/Avalon Applications.

Every talk is posted, so there’s a lot to watch. Here are direct links to talks by my fellow team members (note that there are other WPF/Avalon-related sessions as well, make sure to browse the Presentation track if you’re interested):

Speaker(s) Session
Michael Wallent PRS200: Choosing the Right Presentation Technology: WPF/Avalon, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, IE, and more
Rob Relyea PRS305: A Lap around WPF/Avalon
Pablo Fernicola PRS309: Overview of Windows Vista Graphics
Nick Kramer PRS313: Integrating WPF/Avalon with your Win32/MFC Application
Lauren Lavoie PRS314: Using Application Services
Robbie Ingebretsen PRS317: Beautiful Code, Beautiful Design - Applications Your Designers Can Work With
Namita Gupta PRS324: Using Data in Your WPF/Avalon Applications
Kam VedBrat PRS325: Advanced Graphics (Part 1): 2D, 3D, and Text
Alexander Stevenson PRS327: Optimizing WPF/Avalon applications for performance
Greg Schechter PRS328: Advanced Graphics (Part 2): Animations, Imaging, Effects, and Media
Henry Hahn PRS329: Building User Interfaces with Advanced Layout Techniques
Filipe Fortes PRS330: Creating Rich Content Experiences in Your WPF/Avalon Applications
Kevin Moore PRS431: Building Custom Controls
Chris Anderson, Jeff Bogdan, and Greg Schechter PRS435: Going under the Hood to Understand the Architecture

Note: You’ll need to use Internet Explorer to view the presentations.

Avalon @ the PDC

  • A portion of the Windows Presentation Foundation / Avalon team at the PDC (too many to list), Los Angeles, CA

    A subset of the Avalon Windows Presentation Foundation team at the PDC (full size)

Sneak Preview

Don’t forget to check out my talk tommorrow morning at 8:30 in room 402AB.

Here’s a sneak peak at one of the demos I’ll show you how to build during the hour:

An attractive multi-column document created using Avalon

See you at the PDC

The past several weeks have been quite hectic as I prepare for the PDC while still trying to maintain my normal job.

For those attending, I’ve committed to the following events:

Thursday, 9/15 9:30am - 12:30pm Hands-on Labs Check out the labs, where you can play with the latest bits and get answers from the people who built the product.
12:30pm-3:30pm Track Lounge Along with many other team members, I’ll be hanging out at the Track Lounge answering any questions or, possibly, playing Jenga.
6:30pm-9:30pm Ask the Experts (Avalon Readability) Hanging out with a bit more structure, I guess. No Jenga.
Friday, 9/16 8:30am-9:45am My talk Come check out my talk, it’s much better than staying in your hotel room, hung over.
11:30am-2:30pm Track Lounge Hanging out after my talk

Those are only the times I’ve scheduled for myself. Generally, I’ll probably be in the Track Lounge when I’m not supporting my teammates at their talks.

Tip: All the Avalon Windows Presentation Foundation people (there are around 60) will be wearing bright orange shirts. Except me, I’ll probably have a sports jacket on.

My PDC Talk

Those of you attending the PDC can check out my talk: PRS330 - Windows Presentation Foundation (”Avalon”): Creating Rich Content Experiences in Your Applications. Here’s the official abstract:

Using the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly codename “Avalon”), you can provide your users with world-class content and document experiences within your application. Learn how to take your existing XML content and take advantage of services such as “Metro”, pagination, columns, and sub-pixel ClearType rendering to create a rich and branded display within your application.

I love PDC