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Charlie, would it be possible to get my hands on the source code for that last demo with the spinning letters? I don't have a Media Centre PC so I don't want to download the entire SDK. But I'd like to browse that source.

Thanks.

charlieo wrote:

tj8212 --> As for performance on extenders, will mcml apps render better than wpf based apps?

Yes.

Ok, I noticed in the video that MCML bears a striking resemblance to XAML. You guys have support for layout panels, common controls, databinding, event triggers and separation of behaviour from control type. I'm sure there are other similarities. So I was puzzled as to why you found it necessary to create yet another UI markup language. But a combination of that last demo of the twirling letters and the post quoted here leads me to suspect that you didn't want to go the WPF route because the performance of WPF at the moment leaves alot to be desired.

Did you need a more lightweight framework?

Looks like the video got cut right at the end. Very cool stuff though.

Seems to me like it's a bad idea to have technical evangelists doing the interviewing. It just makes the conversation sound staged in my opinion. I hope this doesn't become a trend.

I'd like to hear more about how the actual tool was built, it looks really cool. (In other words, maybe the Sparkle dev team should start a blog)

While he certainly drove home the point that anonymous methods are really just a convenient syntactic enhancement, I wish he'd pointed out the other conveniences, such as the body of the anonymous method having full access to the variables scoped by the method that defines the AM. Or maybe he sees that as a "mis-feature".

Are the class diagrams different for C# and VB.Net? That seems to be what was implied, which would be strange to me.

Good stuff. This was a great series. Guess I'm Neal Christansen fan now. Funny how noone had the heart to tell him that he'd been hoaxed though

Why is there no direct download link?

This is ridiculously cool. But one thing I've always wondered about these technologies that will be released a long time from now, as .Net 2.0 is still under development, do you guys still take advantage of any of the new framework and/or language enhancements? For example, do you guys refactor the Monad source to make use of C# Generics or Anonymous methods?

Thanks.