Ok. Now I have to keep up on the commitments that I made. Today I will write about the first session that I attended in Teched 2006.
‘ Windows presentation foundation’ by Deepak Gulati.

Its called Avalon earlier , then called as WinFx-WPF and now it goes and gets merged into .Net 3.0.

Some of the highlights of the session are as follows:

1. A new Markup language is used to write WPF applications. It is called XAML (pronounced Zamel).
2. XAML stands for eXtensible Application Markup Language.
3. You can go ahead and deploy your XAML based applications as stand alone windows application or in the Web browser.
4. XAML can be written in an application/utility called XamlPad.exe that comes along with WPF.
5. The Xamlpad parses the XAML as and when you write and show you the output.
6. Really Microsoft has made it easy really easy for the application development.
7. the ease with which a video is run in a button and the button given various look and feels is amazing.
8. the web designers need not work with XAML. They can go ahead drawing their dreams in a utility called ‘Expression’ designer.
9. The ‘expression’ automatically creates the XAML content for you which can be used in Visual Studio.
10. The Xaml code generated in Visual studio can be viewed in ‘Expression’.
11. WPF is not a replacement for .Net windows application or Asp.Net web application

Overall it was really a good session. The 11th point is something that I got cleared in this session. I had tried Avalon in its November CTP release.

Yeaaaah, June CTP is getting downloaded in my box now as I write this entry 