Adam Nathan - Light up an app with WPF (formerly Avalon)

Posted By: scobleizer | Sep 13th, 2005 @ 11:34 AM

Adam Nathan is giving a talk at the PDC on Thursday about making an application "light up" on Windows Vista. To prepare for the talk he created WinFXHearts.com. Very cool version of the Internet Hearts game. Here we visit his office to get a good look at his application and what developers can do with Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as Avalon). Adam wrote more about this on his blog.

Tags: PDC05, Windows Media, Windows Vista, WinFX, WPF

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madka

omg, WPF and XAML are just AMAZING, Wow....nice work Adam.

Adam Nathan
My real badge photo from 1999

One minor correction for any PDC attendees reading this: My talk is on Thursday (FUN318) - not today. [EDIT: I see this has now been corrected above.]

gizmo_
By 'eck thats some quality kernel work

Very Cool

What was the program, the one that said "What was that?" is it a speech recognition app for vista?

Adam Nathan
My real badge photo from 1999

Yep. All Programs -> Accessories -> Accessibility -> Speech Recognition. It already handles a variety of commands, so if I say "Play," for example, it invokes Windows Media Player.

KenIII
Me smiling for the Camera

Very cool app, Now I won't get any "real" work done today, I'll be playing with this kind of stuff. Great job, thanks for the info.

daSmirnov

You're going to have to get someone to re-do Spider now, my mum's got high expectations now!!!

Great stuff.

Rossj

OMG. The video inside the cards in XAMLPad were cool. I want this on my mac .. Apple? Are you listening?

imorley

I'm loving Avalon... but you guys do realise that you're not going to be able to kill that name... I mean, ~~WTF~~ WPF?!! Perplexed

You're taking an uber-cool piece of technology, with a pretty cool name (Avalon) and trying to rename it with some lame acronym - I can understand the need for branding, but this is just insanity! Insanity I tells ya - I mean who wants to develop on something called WPF?... Furthermore, do we really need to be giving more acronyms to the world? I think I'm going to have to start a new cause - People Against Bloody Acronyms (perhaps I could call it PABA)

I love the part of this video where Scoble asks "what's WPF?", after having pointed out that Avalon is now called WPF earlier Big Smile

WPF indeed.

Schneider

Adam,

Whats the flashing light gadget thing on your desk?