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• Introducing the Third Major Release of Windows Presentation Foundation

  Today I'm excited to announce the public beta availability of a major new release of WPF. Since we shipped .NET Framework 3.5 late last year, the team has been hard at work at a new release that adds many supplemental features, fixes a good number of bugs, offers many performance optimizations, and includes a new streamlined installer for a subset profile of the .NET Framework optimized for client scenarios. This new release will ship as part of .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 later this summer; the beta release is an early preview of these enhancements. In this blog post, I want to provide a broad overview of the new features in this release, focusing on WPF. Download links: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (Beta) Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions SP1 (Beta) Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 (Beta) Deployment It's been interesting over the last year or two to see the balance between business and consumer applications developed Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 12:00 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Windows, Controls, visual studio, changes, cider

• What's New in WPF 3.5? Here's Fifteen Cool Features...

  A lot of WPF developers know that Visual Studio 2008 will include much better baked-in support for WPF - the "Cider" team have delivered a WPF forms designer, high-quality XAML Intellisense built on top of a XAML language service rather than an XSD, a full set of project templates and integration between WinForms and WPF design-time views. But not so many people are aware of the enhancements we're making behind the scenes to the core WPF runtime, both in terms of polishing off a few rough edges and adding a small number of targeted features that will unblock a few key scenarios. I thought I'd steal liberally from a presentation the famous Kevin Moore (of WPF Bag'o'Tricks fame) delivered at an internal field conference this week, and give you a quick run-down of some of the new capabilities you'll find in this updated release. Make sure you download a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and check out both the design-time improvements and the enhanced platform features. Here's a non-exhaustive Read More... Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 4:35 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, 3D, visual studio, orcas, cider

• WPF Hands-on-Lab: Build an Outlook 2007 UI Clone

  I got wind today of a great hands-on lab that demonstrates the steps needed to create a high-quality user interface for business applications using WPF and Expression Blend. Two engineers from Microsoft Switzerland, Ronnie Saurenmann and Ruihua Jin, have put together this 90-page lab that starts at File / New Project and ends with a facsimile of the Outlook 2007 user interface. Along the way they demonstrate the use of data binding, templates, styles, and triggers; show how you can customize the ListView control to create a message listing; show how template binding works, and show how you can use code to customize and sort the list view. There's lots to learn here - if you're wondering if WPF is just about data visualization or consumer-orientated graphical applications, this will help persuade you that it's also a great platform for building more traditional business software. Download the lab manual here ; the source project you'll need to complete the lab can be found here . Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:57 AM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, visual studio, blend, lab