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Graphical Composition in Avalon Publish Date: Mar. 8, 2004
Longhorn introduces significant new graphics technology, codenamed "Avalon." Avalon renders an application's visual elements onto the screen using a much more sophisticated approach than Windows has previously used. In this article, Ian Griffiths show how this new graphical composition model solves various limitations of Win32, what new user interface design techniques this enables, and what it means to developers.
Inside XAML Publish Date: Jan. 19, 2004
One of Longhorn's most interesting technologies for developers is its new XML-based markup language, codenamed XAML (short for eXtensible Application Markup Language, and pronounced "Zammel"). User interfaces in Longhorn applications are typically built using XAML. Ian Griffiths looks at how XAML relates to the underlying support provided by WinFX.
WinFX: An All-Managed API Publish Date: Nov. 24, 2003
In Longhorn, Win32 will no longer be the principal API. It will, of course, continue to be supported; 20-year-old DOS applications still run on the latest version of Windows, and likewise, Win32 applications will also continue to work for the foreseeable future. But just as DOS and 16-bit Windows applications were superseded by Win32 applications, so in Longhorn will Win32 become the "old way" of doing things. In the first edition of this new column by Ian Griffiths, he explains why an all-managed API is a good thing.
Longhorn SDK Annotations Publish Date: Nov. 19, 2003
At last month's Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft unveiled the core features that will be added to the Windows platform, code-named Longhorn. Among the new features is a new experimental facility to the MSDN library: the Longhorn SDK. Working closely with Microsoft, O'Reilly has seized upon this new feature that allows third parties to use RSS feeds to enhance the Longhorn SDK docs. O'Reilly is the first to provide a Microsoft-recommended source of annotations through this new mechanism. Ian Griffiths looks at the anatomy of the annotation source, as well as the inner workings of the client-side RSS component.
