Often times when I go through the WPF forums, I see people getting confused with WPF and WPF/E..... (don’t miss the ‘E’).. One of things that is on many of our minds is ‘why not xbap’. Chad summarizes the difference in his blog pretty well. “ WPF/E Applications · Are cross-platform ready (Mac OS X and Windows) · Do not require the client to have the .NET 3.0 runtime. Instead, WPF/E applications run within a browser plugin. · Do not support code-behind · Rely on JavaScript XBAPs · Require the client to have the .NET 3.0 runtime components installed. · Are not cross-platform enabled. They will only run on Windows machines. · Support code-behind · Must run within IE (or use the IETab plugin for Firefox)” I decided to get my hands dirty with WPF/E and its pretty simple. What you really need to get going is: · WPF/E SDK · WPF/E template for VS (comes with the SDK but needs to be installed) · Expression Blend is nice to have. No 3D support yet but you can get effects like the above pretty easily.
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