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MSDN again has interesting articles that detail what the forthcoming Avalon presentation system is. To me, it seems like a combination of Flash, OpenGL and ASP.NET/VCL style of declarative, XML based way of specifying your user interfaces and graphics.
For instance, these articles detail some of the features: article 1, article 2.
Now, there are posts on the Internet that Delphi's VCL classes would be easy to transfer into Avalon world, but I dare to doubt this.
Okay, for basic "business UIs" yes, but the more I study Avalon, the more I can find features in it that just cannot be supported by VCL.
It might be that I need to rewrite my WinForms UIs, but I wouldn't want to stick to VCL.NET either, for I'm afraid it won't last in the long run.
Mentally, I have no problem preparing to move straight to Avalon once it is here, but many Delphi people might be left out in the cold if Delphi will only have support to VCL.NET designers.
I'm finally feeling better after a long flu, so good in fact that I retrieved my bike from the garage. She started humming on the first try, good for her.
Next week, I need to get few things adjusted for it, but after that, it's all joy. :-)
Bad luck: a DJ gig I was about to play some nice records in was cancelled earlier this week. It was supposed to be kept in a restaurant in Espoo.
I would have like to have a show, but sometimes things don't go as planned. Until next time, then.
The March issues of the Finnish Prosessori magazine and the UK-based The Delphi magazines feature my latest articles.
The articles are about embedded application security and refactoring support in Borland Delphi 2005.
Saturday is often a good day for studying .NET related things, and this one made no exceptions.
MSDN has a good article about the forthcoming database features in Visual Studio .NET 2005 and ADO.NET 2.0.
Although some of the features have existed in Borland's Delphi since version 1.0, these additions are very welcome to the .NET platform. Typed DataSets is one excellent thing.
The week passing took me to two different fairs, first on Wednesday about ASP.NET 2.0, and the next day took me the Finlandia Hall for the TechNet Pro 2005 fair.
Sadly enough, I didn't have a chance to attend the sessions myself for them being either fully crowded or at times unavailable to me, but I'm looking forward to checking the sessions later in recorded format.
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