Category: WPF
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Almost Famo.us
Famo.us is a very promising looking approach to gaining the Flash-like richness that once required a plugin. Is it as good as it looks?
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Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft’s controversial Mr. Windows
This pretty much outlines why I didn’t blog for my last couple years at Microsoft…
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Fast Times at RIA High
What a time this is shaping up to be… We have some exciting stuff cooking here that I can’t quite talk about yet but you’ll be seeing soon enough. Scott Guthrie recently posted about a few of the things we’re doing to continue WPF’s place as the best platform for creating the best desktop experiences…
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WindowsClient.net
A white paper that I co-wrote just went live on WindowsClient.NET and is the first featured news item (for today). The paper is targeted at developers with WinForms chops who are thinking about making the jump to WPF but want to know when the right time and conditions are. I won’t give away the ending–check…
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Free WPF Tools
I’m glad to say that for the first time, we have some free developer tools for XAML and WPF. John Montgomery has blogged about it here and includes some links. Although this is still a CTP, it’s a CTP of some tools that are always free as in beer. The C# patch is up and the VB…
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Free Online Training for WPF and .NET 3.0
So for a limited time (until Vista ships), Microsoft Learning is offering three free 2-hour “premium clinics” for .NET 3.0 (including WPF). The course is called “Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005”. Note that these are targeted at developers and architects. I haven’t taken a look at these yet but…