Max

Max is a app that demonstrates WPF, as in Windows Presentation Foundation, now part of .Net 3.0. Originally (at least when I saw Max at PDC '05) Max was orientated at photo sharing and viewing, with some neat gallery style presentation modes (or Mantles). Now the Max team, have rolled out a version that supports news reading (RSS and Atom feeds) using a very nice dynamic document layout in the content rendering panes.

Here's a quick look at the m a n n i n g t r e e atom feed as rendered in Max...

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and, while we're about it, here's some recent c r o s s o a k piccy's as displayed in the Max Mantle view.

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You can download max from microsoft.com/max

 

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