Entries from May 2008 ↓

On Tuesday XChange International announced Electric Rain’s ZAM 3D, a 3D Modeling application that supports XAML.

Electric Rain ZAM 3D™ is a full-featured 3D modelling application that enables easy creation, customisation and animation of 3D interface elements for Windows Vista based applications. Once a 3D scene is created, ZAM 3D automatically generates the XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) markup necessary to convert the 3D elements into a Windows Presentation Foundation “WPF” (formally Avalon) 3D scene.

Earlier this week The New York times released Time Reader Beta for Mac. This is a port of the WPF application that is currently available for PC.

The New York Times Reader lets you download full editions of the NYT to your desktop where you can browse the contents offline in a newsprint format.

Registration is open for PDC2008, should be a great event. The registration site hints at some announcements about Win7.

Using Silverlight, Microsoft Australia is helping The Smith Family Charity. If you watch a 35 second video demo of Office 07, presented by a kid, Microsoft will donate $1 to the fund.

According to a blog post by Miguel de Icaza, VP of Engineering at Novell and lead on the Moonlight project, the first public release of Moonlight was made available on Tuesday. This is a source code release which supports Silverlight 1.0.

I don’t have an environment to test it on, if you do let us know how it’s working out.

Worldwide Telescope from Microsoft Research is an incredible application built on WPF. Install the application and explore the universe in 3D, it has to be seen to be believed. Download it here.

The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (MSCUI) is a proof of concept to showcase Microsoft thought leadership in state-of-the-art User Experience for Healthcare applications.

It is our showcase for new ideas, experimentation and an artefact for learning and thinking about future developments of the MSCUI program.

Here’s a neat little Silverlight application that serves up interactive presentations about Microsoft products and services using Silverlight.

Learning Snacks are free, short, interactive presentations about popular topics and have been created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site.

Kirupa Chinnathambi has a well put together article about modifying WPF animations in C# over on his blog. It’s an easy read and will probably be useful for designers just getting their feet wet with C#.