IRhetoric - Karsten Januszewski
Avalon: Convergence in the Simulacrum
Outlined Text -- Approximating Stroke on Text in Avalon
Chris Han from the Avalon team posted a sample that approximates doing stroke on text in Avalon:...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/24/2005
Avalon Blog OPML File
Tim Sneath recently posted a list of Avalon bloggers. Someone recently asked for this very data and...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/24/2005
Program Computer Games? No, Programming IS The Game
I don't know why it took me so long, but I finally am reading Rudy Rucker's Software Engineering and...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/15/2005
Gnarly SDK Sample: Animation Composition
My favorite SDK sample is under \Graphics and Multimedia\Animation and Timing\Animation Composition...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/10/2005
Rotation3D, RotateTransform3D, Rotation3DAnimation, Center, Angle, Axis
I've been spending some time with the Rotation transformation and animation classes in Avalon. These...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/08/2005
WinForms Screen Saver Starter Kit in Whidbey (.NET 2.0)
Okay, I'm late to the party on this one, but I just came across the RSS Screen Saver Starter Kit in...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/07/2005
Sandbox3D v.0.0.0.3 -- Trackball support
I just posted a new version of Sandbox3D. I a dded trackball support for the rotation values, so...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/06/2005
Magnifying Glass Sample by Ian Griffiths
A very concise and useful sample of the power of Avalon's Visual Brush can be found by Ian...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/03/2005
More RHogue Samples: StockGraph3D and 3D Video
RHogue has posted a couple more samples that are interesting. The StockGraph3D sample has a reusable...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/02/2005
Avalon Desktop Clock Sample at Channel 9
Up in the Channel 9 Sandbox there is an Avalon Desktop Clock sample posted with source -- nice! If...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/01/2005
Mapping Video Onto Avalon 3D Mesh Objects -- Sandbox3D V.0.0.0.2
With this release of Sandbox3D, I have added the ability to map video onto 3D meshes and then...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/31/2005
More 3D Samples: RHogue Does It Again
If you are looking for more 3D samples, check out RHogue's site, where you can download a bunch of...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/27/2005
Introducing Sandbox3D v.0.0.0.1
In putting the Avalon Task Manager sample back together, I found myself constantly wanting to tweak...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/26/2005
Creating Avalon Friendly, Databound Indigo Proxy Classes With svcutil and /enableDataBinding
If you are creating an Avalon application that talks to an Indigo web service, you can generate a...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/25/2005
Video in Avalon Beta 1 RC
Some gotchas with video in this release: --It requires Windows Media Player 10 be installed on the...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/24/2005
Updated Avalon Task Manager - 2D and 3D Dynamic Animations
Back in January, I wrote an article on doing 2D and 3D dynamic animations. Somehow, I never got...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/23/2005
New Avalon and Indigo Posted
The Beta 1 RC went live today. It is actually based on Whidbey Beta 2, which is handy. Lots of good...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/23/2005
FTP Sample Using Whidbey Updated (.NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2)
A few people pointed out that my sample for uploading a bunch of images to an FTP site using Whidbey...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/12/2005
Back on the Job/Back on the Blog
After a 4 week paternity leave (an amazing benefit that Microsoft provides to new families), I'm...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/09/2005
ZAM3D -- Preview of Tool for Creating Avalon 3D
Check out ZAM3D by Electric Rain. These guys have ported their tool for creating Flash 3D to output...
Author: karstenj Date: 04/12/2005
Avalon as Convergence
When we talk about Avalon, we often talk about integration and unification, the notion that the...
Author: karstenj Date: 04/10/2005
Live from FITC
Some sessions I've attended: This morning was City of Wings -- from their site: "The Hive is a...
Author: karstenj Date: 04/10/2005
FITC Conference
I presented Avalon yesterday at FITC, a very cool conference. It has both creative and technical...
Author: karstenj Date: 04/10/2005
What's New the Avalon March CTP Posted
MSDN just posted an article I put together on what's new in the Avalon March CTP. It includes some...
Author: karstenj Date: 03/18/2005
More on the Amazon Web Services
I wanted to provide a little more context on the Amazon Web Services. First off, for those that...
Author: karstenj Date: 02/23/2005
Amazon Web Services Samples
I recently have worked with the Amazon Web Services team to put together some samples of using .NET...
Author: karstenj Date: 02/21/2005
MSDN Article on 2d/3d makes the Longhorn Dev Center Headlines
I've got an article up on MSDN on 2d/3d animation you might check out. Well, the article itself went...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/28/2005
Avalon bits now available publicly
The Avalon team made their November CTP available for the public today! Please download and give it...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/14/2005
Avalon on Channel 9
This is old news by now, but if you haven't checked out my interview with Daniel Lehenbauer on...
Author: karstenj Date: 01/10/2005
Hosting An Avalon Application in a Browser: More than just flipping a bit
I recently wanted to convert a project that ran as a standalone Avalon application into an...
Author: karstenj Date: 12/21/2004
More Avalon 3D Samples
Check out https://www.therhogue.com/WinFX/ for some more Avalon 3D samples. Robert Hogue is an...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/30/2004
FTP Sample Using Whidbey (.NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2)
I recently needed to upload a bunch of images via FTP. This gave me a perfect reason to write some...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/30/2004
Avalon is Back
After a few months of being dark, I'm back -- and far more interestingly, Avalon is back. This...
Author: karstenj Date: 11/19/2004
Flying Donuts: 3D Animation in Avalon Made Easy (V3 of my 3D experiments)
3D is all well and good, but it gets really interesting when you can animate things. It turns out...
Author: karstenj Date: 08/20/2004
Worldspace, Modelspace, Primitives and Code: The Donut Primitive, V2
If you are interested in Avalon 3D, you should be following Dan Lehen's blog. His most recent...
Author: karstenj Date: 08/12/2004
The Donut (aka Torus) Primitive: My Super Simple Avalon 3D Demo That Exercises The Mesh Primitives
As promised, I put together a very simple 3D sample that uses the Avalon 3D primitive class used in...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/27/2004
The .NET Framework, Genetic Programming and Rudy Rucker
This month's MSDN has an amazing article on genetic programming with the .NET Framework. If you...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/20/2004
Another Great 3D Demo
Another great 3D demo posted by Joe Beda of the Avalon team, including source code. Looking at the...
Author: karstenj Date: 07/06/2004
Installing Monad on XP or Win2k3
If you would like to install Monad on XP or Win2k3, you can do that by following these instructions:...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/25/2004
Monad in the WinHec builds
If you didn't see it already, check out the latest .NET Show on the Fundamentals...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/24/2004
Gnarly 3D Avalon Sample (including source code) That Mimics Famous Amiga Demo
Check this out: https://blogs.msdn.com/danlehen/archive/2004/06/01/146259.aspx Dan Lehen's 3D sample...
Author: karstenj Date: 06/03/2004
P2P in Longhorn - Not Installed by Default...
BTW, if you are wanting to play with the managed P2P stack in Longhorn, you will need to manually...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/21/2004
Avalon Quiz Answer: Beware of Dock.Fill and the Order of Elements
So where did I go wrong? When Avalon encounters the “Fill“ command, it does just that --...
Author: karstenj Date: 05/03/2004
Avalon Gotcha Quiz: What Did I Do Wrong?
I was writing an Avalon application today and hit a weird gotcha. It threw me for a loop until a...
Author: karstenj Date: 04/30/2004