Since the end of January, there's a new release of the XAML Exporter for Blender 3D. Robert Hogue has written some patches for it. The new version 0.44 has the following changes:

• added support for modifiers, effects, animation frame selection support
  • added reference to modules BPyMesh and BPyObject
  • now calling getMeshFromObject and getDerivedObjects() - fixes depricated issues also
  • current animated frame is now used
• fixed long indicies line - max ~4096 characters per line
• fixed spelling error
• added warning for particles
  • particles for fur or effects are not currently supported, now there is a warning in the output window

Time to play with it again and see if my old Blender models export properly...

Beatriz Costa has some excellent blogposts on WPF Databinding and all its complexities. Her latest post for instance called "How can I drag and drop items between data bound ItemsControls?" is an extensive, easy to follow tutorial on quite an advanced topic. Defintely worth checking out!

I came across this collection of 3 free MS E-learning Courses about .NET 3.0. They're somewhat older, but still nice enough, especially if you want to look beyond WPF and dabble with Communciations and Workflow Foundations.

This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. These clinics are for experienced Developers and Software Architects who are looking to adopt Microsoft's next generation technology within their solutions.

How anyone is ever going to be able to keep up with all the developments out there, I wouldn't know. Everyday I find stuff on the internet that I hadn't heard of before. And yet, there are people busy doing stuff with those things and writing blogs and making podcasts about is as well... Today I came across the following:

Learning WPF with F#

F#? WTF? Apparantly Microsoft is doing quite some research on F# whcih they claim is:

... a programming language that provides the much sought-after combination of type safety, performance and scripting, with all the advantages of running on a high-quality, well-supported modern runtime system. Combining the efficiency, scripting, strong typing and productivity of ML with the stability, libraries, cross-language working and tools of .NET.

And, since F# will run against the .NET framework it can also use the WPF API's. John Liao has devoted quite a lot of blogposts to his study of WPF by rewriting all of Petzolds code samples from C# to F#... Amazing...

Here's a short list of sites hosting WPF video-tutorials. I'm going to add more in the coming days and will also provide more information about each of them. I'll probably add that info to a static page soon...

http://www.contentpresenter.com
"ContentPresenter.com is a free WPF tutorial resource that I created to help interactive designers learn this exciting new technology."

http://www.wpfsouptonuts.com/
This is an excellent series of webcasts covering the basics of WPF (and allready adressed in one of my previous posts

MS Events Page
A complete list of WPF-related Webcasts by Microsoft

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=359
A general introduction to Expression Blend, based on the Beta Preview.

http://www.microsoft.com/Expression/kc/ ... type=video
Microsoft's own Expression Blend training video's

windowsclient.net/learn/videos_wpf.aspx
About 30 WPF video tutorials covering a wide range of topis

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx ... ;TagID=105
Channel 9 hosts quite a lot of WPF videos. They're not all tutorials, and some of them are quite old.