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Avalon and Indigo Community Technology Preview - March 2005

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:23:09 +0000

Indigo and Avalon are the codenames for two strategic developer technologies that Microsoft plans to ship in 2006 as part of the Windows "Longhorn" operating system. In addition, Microsoft is making these technologies available on... Read more...

What is Avalon Exactly?

Steven Parker — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:57:09 +0000

Avalon is the new rendering and compositing technolgoy that Microsoft is developing primarily for Longhorn (Microsoft's next release of Windows) that is available in beta form on Windows XP. From Windows 3.0 all... Read more...

Microsoft Avalon Community Technology Preview

Tom Warren — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:09:14 +0000

"Avalon" is the code name for the presentation subsystem class libraries in WinFX. Avalon provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the... Read more...

Demo of Avalon 3D (Longhorn Feature)

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:06:35 +0000

A demo of Avalon 3D. Really cool stuff. Originally designed to only run on the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, Avalon is now supported on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. In fact, the... Read more...

Microsoft gives developers a glimpse of Avalon

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:53:04 +0000

Although the next version of Windows is still about two years from release, Microsoft on Friday offered developers an early look at the new graphics engine that will accompany it. The Redmond,... Read more...

Graphical Composition in Avalon

Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:13:53 +0000

Longhorn introduces significant new graphics technology, currently known by its codename, "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,... Read more...

PDC: Some concerns about Avalon, XAML

Brad Wardell — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 02:40:47 +0000

Today was day 2 at PDC and the developer sessions showed off some incredibly cool technologies that will be in Longhorn. Longhorn promises to be a panacea for software developers. But what about... Read more...