February 2008 - Posts
Great to see Bruno, a MS MVP, building a useful utility on top of WPF:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2270853,00.asp
Got a pointer to Brad Cunningham's writeup on WPF "Master Page" like functionality from Adam Calderon. This is a popular ASP.NET feature that many like to enable in WPF. How do you like Brad's approach...please give him comments...
Any other posts on this topic worthy of pointing to? Please leave in comments...
Scott Guthrie blogged yesterday about the .Net 3.5 Client Product Roadmap with details about some of the things we'll be enhancing in WPF/.Net in the near future. Our team has been working hard to improve the things that many customers say are the most important things for WPF development; however, the WPF team isn't working alone...the CLR team is doing great work to help improve working set and cold start...the WPF Designer team and VS team are also doing work to improve your developer experience. Read Scott's post for the details we can talk about now...
At Mix, I'll be lucky to present a session that goes into many of the details. It is currently titled, What new in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5...but the title/description will be changing to include the details of our upcoming release. The session, like all Mix sessions, will be recorded and available shortly after Mix.
What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5
Thursday, March 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Delfino 4105
Speaker: Rob Relyea
Audience: Technical
Ricciolo did a post about a new control that he built that can visualize audio spectrum in WPF. His post has a video of it in action and the source code. Cool stuff!
I stumbled on this channel 9 thread about a developer interviewing at Microsoft for a job building a WPF application. I blogged in the past about my career history @ Microsoft and how I came to Redmond: Job search brought me to Microsoft R+D
WPF Work inside Microsoft
I'm happy to say there are many groups inside of Microsoft doing some great WPF things...I'm looking forward to the day when we can show/talk about them all. Beyond that the WPF team is always in need of great people...and the Silverlight team...and the Xaml team...lots of fun work to do...http://microsoft.com/jobs
Update: I saw Ashish's link to Tina Fay's "Life At Microsoft - The Truth Revealed" as well...
Over on CodeProject.com (which has a bunch of WPF content), there are 2 new articles about building a Diagram Designer with WPF:
Update: A comment on part 2 points towards related functionality that somebody else is working on (dvuyka) and references Orbifold's unfold...worth a look!
I didn't review it thoroughly, but one thing I noticed was that the resize/rotate adorners weren't using the adorner layer. Some adorner layer content:
Hello, my name is Rob Relyea. I'm an Architect on the WPF and Xaml Language teams @ Microsoft.
I'm almost 5 years into blogging about WPF/Xaml and I still couldn't be more excited about what I'm working on here at Microsoft with a bunch of great people. 2008 now sees Microsoft delivering:
- native support in Visual Studio 2008 for WPF projects, designing WPF pages, and Xaml editing. This has come a long way since the early builds of "Fidalgo" (VS Extensions for WPF) that I helped scrape together back in 2003. Still a bunch of other great things to do for VS users...
- a suite of tools for media/content/interactive design with Microsoft Expression.
- WPF 3.5 (inside .Net 3.0 SP1, Windows Vista SP1, and .Net Framework 3.5) - our 2nd version of the Windows Presentation Foundation.
- Silverlight 1.0 on the market - great support for Media, Animations, and Vector Graphics (consistent with WPF) in the browser (and X-platform!)
- Silverlight 2.0 anticipation is an all time high.
- The Xaml Language is seeing success represent UI with WPF & Silverlight. Paper with XPS. Workflow descriptions with Windows Workflow Foundation. More to come...
This starts the 4th era of my work on WPF:
- Quiet Era (Jan 2001 - October 2003) Quietly working away on "Avalon", previewing to a few close partners, but no blogging!
- Alpha Era - LonghornBlogs.com (October 2003 - April 2006) I first started blogging about WPF (then codenamed "Avalon") during the 2003 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) @ longhornblogs.com - that site when through a name change and is now Windows-Now.com - my older content is still @ http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/rrelyea.
- V3 Era - Spaces.Live.com (started April 2006) I then moved my blogging to MSN Spaces, since renamed to Windows Live Spaces. http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
- WindowsClient.net Era (starting February 2008) Now, I'm dipping my toes into another blog...considering if I want another move, or not. http://windowsclient.net/rob_relyea
Glad to continue the conversation!