posted on Saturday, November 20, 2004 2:28 PM
by
demiliani
Avalon Community Technical Preview released
Are you an MSDN subscriber? This is one of the most exciting CTP released in these days... 
The first Community Technical Preview release of "Avalon" is out and ready to try!
Avalon is the new graphics display which unified documents, graphics, media and user interfaces into a single platform. Using a new vector-based compositing engine, Avalon takes full advantage of modern graphics hardware and provides the capabilities for building rich, immersive applications with 2D and 3D capabilities. Avalon also introduces XAML, a markup language that maps XML markup to objects in the .NET Framework and is built to allow designers and developers to work together in the user interface development process.
The great news is that now Avalon is not only a Longhorn feature, but it's available also for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 (this CTP works with these systems, you've only to install the .NET Framework 2.0).
The next download is scheduled...