XAML was an acronym for Extensible Avalon Markup Language – Avalon being the code-name for what would later become (WPF) or “Windows Presentation Foundation” in Windows Vista. More powerful graphic elements could be created with multiple iterations of the same animation playing at the same time as well as 2D and 3D objects, smooth animations and rotations and a slew of other effects and features and this was all possible with XAML, a derivitive of XML which was used to link various UI elements of the OS. I wanted to take a bit of a step back in time and talk about the two Aurora types that were found in Windows Longhorn that created a buzz back in the Longhorn days.Ĭall it more of an effect or a characteristic of Windows Longhorn, the Aurora which was first shown in some very early builds of Longhorn this was made possible by the use of Managed Code in the Shell and Explorer of Windows which allowed for powerful graphics to be displayed via the new graphic subsystem “Avalon” which made use of hardware acceleration.
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