Rob Relyea - Xamlified

Happy tax day for those of you in the US. A few queued up links of miscellaneous interest:

Designer/Devloper Workflow & the integrator role

• Laurent Bugnion (MVP) posts about the role of WPF Integrator and how his company does it - http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2008/04/11/de-wpf-integratio-about-wpf-integration.aspx

WPF Apps

• Don Burnett blogs about "Grava", software from Microsoft for Simplified Authoring of Educational Software - http://blog.donburnett.com/2008/04/grava-to-bring-simplified-authoring-of.html (I believe you can apply for the Grava CTP on this page: https://connectbeta.microsoft.com/directory/  Login via your LiveID, find "Grava Connect", click Apply Now)

WPF How To

• How to make a spiral using Blend (still would love the XAML file) - http://advertboy.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/how-to-make-a-spiral-xaml-asset-with-design/

Silverlight

• Rockford Lhotka is trying to serialize objects in Silverlight - http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/SilverlightSerializer.aspx
• Delay writes about his update to his Silverlight XPS Viewer

XAML

• Good bug in XamlReader/MarkupCompiler discussed in WPF Forum - a property of type array can't have a type converter be used - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3117360&SiteID=1

WPF Controls

• Hunt for a split button on Channel9 and a pointer from William Kempf to a split button on CodeProject.

WPF Control Authoring

• WPF Forum Post about what people would like from a book about building WPF Controls