Who is this bozo?

I am the lead developer for VG.net, an animated vector graphics system with a graphics designer integrated in Visual Studio .NET. I will be talking about VG.net, techniques for building animated vector components, and MyXaml. I also hope to post some overviews of the designer infrastructure in the .NET framework, and tips for creating root designers in Visual Studio .NET.

Here is an illustration of the latest feature added to VG.net, the ability to edit PathShape points and control points:

VG.net PathShape Point Editing

If you grab the diamond shaped adorments, you can drag around the control points for the spline on either side of the selected point, indicated by the blue “halo“. You may be thinking, what is this VG.net thing? Look at the VG.net website for an explanation.

For comparision, look at this beautiful spline designer for Avalon, created by Nikhil Kothari. He is using controls that make the Visual Studio interface look clunky. A beautiful job, but the VG.net designer is more powerful. You can create animated graphics without Avalon -- no need to wait.

7 Comments

  • Welcome aboard Frank! Geez, I know your name from somewhere, so I'm sure our paths have crossed at some time recently, I just can't remember where. I'm looking forward to your posts.

  • Excellent, looking forward to it - definitely an under-covered area!

  • Don, Scott, thanks.

  • Hi.



    I am really looking forward to reading your blog. I have played with the beta of VG.Net and have to say that the software is of excellent quality. It is good to see that gdi+ can be powerful and fast enough in the right hands. I see that you are interested in the myXaml project, probably with the intent of xml serializing the graphics; avalon style. I have a couple of questions: Are you going to add some higher level animation api, like svg and avalon have. And the second question. How many man years would you estimate has gone into the development of this product.

  • Hi, Hart. Thanks for the nice comments. My response is a little long, so I will post it in another blog entry.

  • Frank, I'm really looking forward to taking a look at VG.NET (I have to confess that I have donwloaded the beta but not had chance to take a look yet).



    I just wanted to point out that your blog design doesn't display properly in FireFox (and presumably other Mozilla based browsers).

  • Thanks for the note. This is not my design -- it came with .Text. Anyone know of a compatible css or skin for that? I am a newbie with this.



    www.vgdotnet.com doesn't work quite right with those browsers either. We need to figure out how to get the middle column to always work correctly without using tables. Just haven't had time to figure it out.

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