Learning XAML

The latest challenge to fall on my plate is to get up to speed with XAML for Windows Presentation Foundation, which is pretty cool stuff.

I'm pretty excited about the potential for 3D and the fact that the UI is vector based, so it is much more versatile and scalable. I'm using the Expression Interface Designer as my IDE and so far it has been a very mixed experience. I love that you can scale the menus down and out the way, but I found it counter intuative that I can't drag and drop elements from the library onto the canvas. Also it seems to be missing some pretty fundamental elements, like hyperlink components or copy and paste in code view.
It's still in beta though so hopefully some of these issues will be resolved. So far it's pretty interesting stuff.