WPF @ PDC2001! I forgot about that…
I was searching for “WPF” on microsoftpdc.com, and I found a great video clip with Robert Hess and Don Box talking about the history of PDC’s.
At about 4:00, they show a long clip from PDC2001 where Rebecca Norlander, Group Program Manager of “Avalon” at the time, did an early demo of WPF…focusing mostly on the animation.
Right after that, they switched to a video feed of Bill Gate’s launching Windows XP.
Before I stumbled on this video, I hadn’t even remembered that we had demoed early WPF before PDC2003.