Xamlon released a beta version of Xamlon Web, a tool that lets .NET developers use C# and Visual Studio .NET, at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference.


On Tuesday, at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference, Xamlon released a beta version of Xamlon Web, a tool that lets those .NET developers use C# and Visual Studio .NET to create and deploy applications that deploy to any browser or operating system.

When Xamlon released its XAML (define) application in October, its CEO promised “XAML now”. Now, Xamlon is backing away from XAML, saying developers aren’t really ready.

The product in question, Xamlon 1.0, is an application development package providing streamlined coding for Web services and Windows Presentation Foundation, the graphics display component in Windows Vista.

While the release of Windows Vista is planned for the end of 2006, Xamlon 1.0 lets .NET developers begin coding in XAML immediately.

Paul Colton, Xamlon CEO, said, “The announcement is a lot about messaging and a lot about focus. We said, ‘Let’s align ourselves more closely with the release schedule of Microsoft and not force developers into something they don’t want to use right now”.

Colton said, “Mainly we learned that developers, much as they love all the new technology out there like XAML and Avalon they want to build Internet applications with technology they understand today”.

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